Paul Cadroy

Paul Cadroy , born the December 26th 1751 with Aire-sur-l'Adour (Moors), dead the November 23rd 1813 with Saint-Sever (Moors), is French lawyer and deputy.

Presentation

Lawyer with Saint-Sever at the beginning of the Révolution, which it ends up approving with great reserves, he becomes vice-president of the administration of the department of the Moors.

Elected official the September 4th 1792 appointed of this department to the national Convention with 212 votes out of 340 voters, it binds with the Girondins and, at the time of the Procès of Louis XVI, vote for detention. Moved away then from the political debates, it presents some observations on the recruitment of the army, the clothing of the troops or the right to test.

After the 9-Thermidor, it attacks the popular Montagnards, companies and the Constitution of year I. Sent on mission in the South, he fights against the Jacobins, who do not hold any more that the district of Arles, and represses a popular insurrection with Toulon. Thereafter, in charge of the provisioning of the Armed with the Alps, it is with Lyon in June 1795, at the time of the white Terreur, and lets crowd draw the Jacobins from their prisons to cut the throat of them. Trying to attenuate the significance of the event, he writes: “The men who died in the prisons had poured in this commune desolation and mourning”.

A few days later, of return to Toulon, it takes again its fight against the Jacobins, who invested the arsenal and military establishments. Frightened by the rigor of its repression, Convention recalls it to Paris. Its action during this mission is worth to him later to be denounced like the agitator of the assassination of the patriots in the South by Pélissier and Blanc.

Named as conventional with the the Council of the Five hundred the 23 Vendémiaire An IV, it must deal with petition of the inhabitants of Marseilles, the 17 Frimaire An IV, showing it to have organized the massacre of patriots. He denies the facts, and the assembly passes to the day order.

Near to the royalists of the Club of Clichy, it is registered, at the time of the Coup d'etat of the 18 fructidor year V, on the list of the deportees, but it manages to escape. Returned in its native land following the Coup d'etat of the 18 brumaire Year VIII, it includes its lawyer function and becomes mayor of Saint-Sever.

Source

Dictionary of the French members of Parliament of 1789 to 1889, volume 1, p. 544-545

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