Andre-Antoine Bernard

Andre-Antoine Bernard of Jeuzines , known as Bernard Holy , born the June 21st 1751 with Corme-Royal (Charente-Lower), dead the October 19th 1818 with Funchal (Portugal), is a French magistrate and deputy.

Ordering national guard and chair court of Saintes the beginning of the Révolution, it is elected in 1791, with 324 votes out of 523 voters, deputy of Charente-Lower than the legislative Assemblée, where it sits with the patriotic majority.

The September 4th 1792, it is re-elected appointed theLower with 431 votes out of 582 voters than the national Convention, where it sits with the Montagnards. At the time of the Lawsuit of Louis XVI, it votes death.

Member of the Committee of general security, it is sent on mission successively in the the Jura and the Coast-with Or. After the taken of Lyon, the principality of Montbeliard, property of the Maison of Wurtemberg is taken by the French Armies, in October 1793; Bernard the Holy ones imposes the population of 400 000 pounds and organizes the Mount-Terrible department of , joined together in France the preceding March 23rd, according to the wishes of the inhabitants of Porrentruy, organized since the November 27th 1792 in République rauracian. With Dijon, it acts with rigor, making stop and translate in front of the revolutionary Tribunal several “aristocrats”, just as in the the Eure, where it is also sent on mission.

Of return to Paris, he becomes secretary of the assembly. After the 9-Thermidor, Tallien draws aside it from the Comité of public hello, but it is made elect president of Convention (2 - September 22nd 1794).

After the invention of the republican Calendar, the day of birth of Bernard, November 30th, festival of the apostle Andre, became the day of the Pioche, the 10 Frimaire, and Bernard was called Pickaxe-iron Bernard .

However, in 1795, he is issued of arrest on the motion of Gouly, against which he claims vainly after the insurrection of the 1 {{er}} meadow year III, before profiting from the general amnesty voted after the ratification of the Constitution of year III, 4 Brumaire An IV.

Lawyer close the criminal court of his department under the Empire, it is touched by the law against the regicides of 1816 and exiles himself in Belgium, where it creates a democratic newspaper, the Supervisor . Soon expelled by the authorities Dutchwomen, it embarks for the the United States but made shipwreck on the coasts of Madeira, and it settles in Funchal, where it dies. The religious authorities having refused the burial, its skin is thrown to the sea.

Source

'' Dictionnaire of the French members of Parliament of 1789 to 1889 '', volume 1, p. 278-279

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