Etienne Christophe Maignet
Etienne Christophe Maignet , born with Ambert (Puy-de-Dôme), the July 9th 1758, died in Ambert, the October 22nd 1834, was a lawyer French.
Lawyer with Ambert the day before the Revolution, Etienne Christophe Maignet is member of the administration of the Puy-de-Dôme in 1790, then appointed of this department to the legislative Assemblée, elected appointed with the Convention by the department of the Puy-de-Dôme. He votes the death of the king at the time of the Procès of Louis XVI in January 1793 and passes the essence of his time on mission to the Armée with the Moselle then to the Armée with the Alps. With Georges Couthon in Lyon overcome, it feels reluctant to put at execution the order destruction of the city sent by Convention and confirmed by a pressing letter of Robespierre. Having asked for his recall, Etienne Christophe Maignet is sent to set up a personnel Jacobin in the Vaucluse and the Rhone delta. To Marseilles, he is opposed to excesses Fréron, endeavors to preserve this city of the destruction and the famine. With Avignon, it makes stop Mathieu Jouve Jourdan, known as Jourdan Coupe-Tête, but makes abuses with Bédoin. A tree of Freedom having been cut down, it orders there the execution of 100 the principal notable ones and makes set fire to the village. One reproaches him that after Thermidor 9 (July 27th 1794) and Etienne Christophe Maignet finds preferable to hide until the general amnesty which vote Convention with its separation. He takes again then his trade of lawyer with Ambert. Condemned to the exile under the Restoration, he lives hidden close to his birthplace until in 1830.
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