François Nicolas Léonard Buzot , (born on March 1st 1760 with Évreux - died in June or July 1794, 30 meadow year II (June 18th, 1794), according to the parliamentary records, around St. Emilion) was a French politician who carried on his activity during the Révolution. He was member of the National Assembly constituent of 1789-1791 and appointed the Eure with the national Convention.

Lawyer with Évreux, it was elected appointed of the Tiers state with the General states by the Bailliage of Évreux in 1789. Immediately, with the constituent Assembly, it vigorously took party against the nobility, the clergy, of which it claims the nationalization of the goods, and monarchy. He also asks the right for all the citizens to carry weapons.

Returned in Évreux after the dissolution of the Constituent , he became president of the criminal court of this city. It is at that time, at the time of a voyage to Paris, which it made the knowledge of Manon Roland.

In 1792, it was re-elected appointed of the Eure to national Convention. Under the influence of her friend, Mrs Roland, it sat among the Girondins and was one their principal speakers. He complained about the control of Marat, submitted a report/ratio on the creation of an national guard of the departments to defend the Convention against Parisian crowd. Its proposal will be accepted, but ever realized. It also submitted a report/ratio to the measures to be taken against the emigrants, of which it suggested the banishment with perpetuity. He proposed to establish the capital punishment against whoever would propose to restore the royalty.

At the time of the lawsuit of Louis XVI, it voted in the affirmative on the culpability of the king and for the ratification of the judgment of the people. On the sorrow, he voted for death with the amendment of Mailhe, and decided for the deferment.

He became Member of the Commission of public, new hello Defense committee general, on March 26th 1793, He fought the introduction of the extraordinary criminal court and the Comité of public hello, and abstained from, with national Convention, in the poll of the committal for trial of Marat. He was several times denounced by the sections of Paris. He voted in the affirmative on the question of knowing if the decree which broke the Commission of the Twelve were to be paid.

The June 2nd 1793, it was issued of arrest with the Girondins, managed to flee and gained the area of the Calvados in Normandy. It tried to organize close to Évreux a federalistic insurrectionary body against the Convention.

The June 13rd, it was issued of charge and, the July 17th, national Convention issued: “that the house occupied by Buzot with Évreux, would be shaven, and that it could about it be never built on this ground. It will be high there a column on which will be this inscription: Ici was the asylum of the scélérat Buzot, which, representing of the people, conspired the loss of the French Republic ”.

The July 23rd, national Convention declared it treacherous with the fatherland. Continued and tracked with Pétion, he sought a shelter with Saint-Émilion, close to Bordeaux where he hid. Discovered, Buzot and Pétion wandered in the countryside and, according to historians, would have been poisoned. One found, in July 1794, their corpses with half devoured by the wolves.

Buzot left Mémoires which were published in 1823.