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Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, Louis-Michel

Louis-Michel Le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau

Born

29 May 1760

Died

21 January 1793

A noble landowner and magistrate before 1789, Le Peletier represented the nobility in the Estates-General, then supported the abolition of hereditary distinctions and voted for the execution of Louis XVI. On 20 January 1793, Philippe-Nicolas-Marie de Pâris, a former royal bodyguard, mortally wounded him with a sword. The Convention accorded him public honours, while David organised his funeral and commemorated him in a now-lost painting. Le Peletier also drafted a plan placing children in publicly funded residential schools for a common civic education. Robespierre presented it on 13 July 1793, but its central provisions were not implemented.

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