Augustin Darthé

Augustin Darthé , born on October 1st 1765 with Saint-pol. (Pas-de-Calais) and guillotine with Paris the 8 meadow year V, is the May 27th 1797), is a French revolutionist.

Biography

The father of Augustin is sworn surgeon, and its modest fortune makes it possible his/her son to undertake studies of right to Paris, where it is in 1789. Augustin Darthé takes part thus in every revolutionary day.

Returned in the Pas-de-Calais, he is elected municipal officer in November 1790. He is then named secretary clerk of the department, on September 16th, 1792, then police chief at the borders. He then multiplies the workshops of weapons to arm the volunteers. He is elected member of the departmental directory. In March 1793, it is named police chief with the liftings of men and must face a movement of revolt carried out by deserters and counter-revolutionaries. One will call this insurrection the “small Vendée de Pérnes”. Under the authority of Darthé, six thousand men subdue the movement and carry out three hundred arrests, which are followed of nineteen death sentences.

Durable hatreds that are worth to him this organization of repression lead to its arrest in 1794 the shortly after the Thermidor 9. There remain fourteen months in prison, until September 1795.

It is in prison that it meets Gracchus Babeuf and Filipo Buonarroti, with which it will take part so that one called the “Conjuration of Equal the”. The network of “Equal” recovers all the districts of Paris and many provincial towns. At its head, a “secret Directory of public hello”, directed by Babeuf, coordinates the fight.

The goal is to continue the revolution, and to lead to the collectivization of the grounds and the means of production, to obtain “the perfect equality” and “common happiness”.

Thanks to information of an indicator, Georges Grisel, the police force stops Babeuf, Buonaroti, Darthé, and the principal leaders of Equal on May 10th 1796 (19 floréal year IV). To avoid the escape bids, the Equal ones are transferred to Vendôme (Loir-et-Cher).

A high court is made up, and the lawsuit opens in Vendôme on February 20th 1797 in the presence of two ministers. April 16th, Lazare Carnot had made voted a law which punished of dead the apology for the Constitution of 1793 and the calls to the dissolution of the Directoire. Babeuf, which one reproaches the initiative of the plot and Darthé, which was locked up at the time of the debates in the most total dumbness and to which one reproaches the drafting about execution of the Directors, are condemned to death. Babeuf and Darthé try to commit suicide and are guillotines the 8 meadow year V (May 27th, 1797). Buonaroti, Germain and five others marked are condemned to the deportation. 56 others shown, whose Jean-Baptist-Andre Amar is discharged.

Source

Article Babeuf of F.Wartelle, in historical Dictionary of the French revolution directed by Albert Soboul, PUF, 1989.

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