Georges Couthon
Georges Couthon , born the December 22nd 1755 with Orcet (Puy-de-Dôme), died with Paris, the July 28th 1794, is a French politician, personality of the Révolution.
Lawyer resulting from a family of royal notaries originating in Saint-Save-in Auvergne, then president of the civil court of Clermont-Ferrand (1790), it is elected appointed in 1791 with the legislative Assemblée, then with the national Convention where it sits quickly among the Montagnards. There it binds with Robespierre and Saint-Just, formant this famous “triumvirate” which one showed to aspire to the dictatorship. It contributes to the fall of the Girondins; it is one of the writers of the Constitution in 1793.
Starting from the July 10th 1793, he becomes member of the Comité of public hello, with Robespierre and Saint-Just. It is sent on mission to Clermont, then with Lyon where, the October 9th, it returns with his/her colleague Maignet in the city. It is him which began, with moderation, the repression which became extremely violent after its recall and the designation of Collot d' Herbois and of Fouché. Couthon was then rapporteur of the law of the meadow 22, known as of Grande Terror , reorganizing the revolutionary Tribunal, law whose its adversaries were to be used for to blacken its memory.
It was guillotine on 10 Thermidor, pulled by Robespierre, faithful until death to its policy and its friendship.
Its health had been compromised following one night spent in a barrel filled with icy water not to compromise the honor of a woman whom he loved. It lost the use of its legs of it. Couthon was initiated frankly mason, with the Loge Saint Maurice, the Orient of Clermont the December 11th 1786.
The town of Clermont gave its name to a street. A Parisian cabin of the Grand the East of France also bears its name.
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