François Louis Dubois 1758 - 1828

Lawyer with Colmar, before the Revolution, it is elected appointed with the Convention by the Département of Haut-Rhin. He sits among the moderate ones. At the time of the Lawsuit of Louis XVI, it affirmed against Louis Antoine Leon de Saint-Just: " I am not judge, This character does not belong to any us… I see in Louis and his family a means of pushing back the evils of the war. You remove it to you by pronouncing a death warrant. I vote for the reclusion until the paix". It fills of the missions to the armies of North and Sambre-and-Meuse. Elected to the the Council of the Five hundred, it was sent the 17 messidor year VI in the Ioniennes islands as police chief to organize them in departments. Napoleon Bonaparte made of it a general police chief of police force to Lyon. It is often confused with Louis Nicolas Dubois prefect of police.