Jean-Jacques Bréard

Jean-Jacques Bréard , known as Bréard-Duplessis, born with Quebec (Canada), on October 11th 1751, died in Paris, on January 2nd 1840, appointed Charente-Lower than the national Convention.

He was the son of a controller of the navy, which had taken share with the disastrous administration of the last intendant of the colony. Jean-Jacques Bréard left Canada with his father and arrived to France about 1758.

Enthusiastic follower of the revolution, become mayor of Marenne oyster, it was elected with the legislative Assemblée, then with national Convention. He voted the death of the king Louis XVI, which he justified as follows: “I ask, without fearing the reproaches of my principals, without fearing the judgment of the posterity which cannot blame that which makes its duty, I ask for the capital punishment against Louis”.

Secretary of the assembly, it chaired it from February 7th to 21st 1793 and was elected with the first Comité of Public Hello, on April 6th, 1793 when it dealt with the navy. He resigned on June 5th, 1793 of it.

Hating the nobility, it supported on April 15th 1794, the decree of Saint-Just which ordered the expulsion of the noble ones.

It attacked Maximilien de Robespierre the Thermidor 9 then was devoted to organize funeral festivals in the honor of the victims of the Terreur.

President of the the Council of Old the, Substitute at the letter post, under the Directory, he became controller of the rights joined together under the Empire.

With the restoration, it had to be exiled in Belgium and to France only after 1830 returned.

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