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Santerre, Antoine Joseph

Antoine Joseph Santerre

Born

16 March 1752

Died

6 February 1809

A brewer of the faubourg Saint-Antoine who commanded his district’s guard in July 1789, Santerre became one of the best-known popular leaders of the eastern faubourgs. He was prominent in the invasion of the Tuileries on 20 June 1792 and sat on the insurrectionary committee of 10 August, when he replaced the murdered Mandat as commander of the Paris National Guard and afterwards conducted the royal family to the Temple. He had charge of the security arrangements at Louis XVI’s execution on 21 January 1793. Given a command against the Vendéan insurgents, he was routed near Coron in September 1793 and recalled to Paris. Arrested in April 1794 and released after Thermidor, he resigned his rank, lost what remained of his fortune in speculation and died in Paris in 1809.

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