Philibert Simond

See also: Simond

Philibert Simond , born with Rumilly (Haute-Savoie), on September 7th 1755, dead guillotine with Paris, on April 14th 1794, appointed the Low-Rhine with the national Convention.

Ordered priest in 1779, vicar some time with the Small-Bornand , it came to Paris to continue its studies of theology. Of return in Savoy, then possession of the House of Savoy, it spread the ideas nouvelles.
there Regarded as an agitator, he was threatened of catch of body by the Sardinian government for revolutionary propaganda. He had to flee with Geneva then with Strasbourg in 1790. He became vicar of the constitutional bishop there and member of the club of the Jacobins and pointed out himself by his vehement criticism of the local authorities. He claimed the dismissal of the mayor of Strasbourg Philippe Frederic Dietrich. Wearied by its oratorical excesses the authorities invited it to leave Strasbourg but it complained with the Jacobins in Paris. Result: the General advice of the commune was suspended. Philibert Simond made a triumphal return in this ville.
Elected official, on September 8th 1792, the ninth and the last, deputy of the the Low-Rhine to national Convention, it took seat on the benches Montagnards. He became substitute with the Comité for the war.
After the annexation of Savoy (November 27th, 1792), it was sent with Marie Jean Herault de Séchelles, the abbot Henri Gregoire and Gregoire Jagot in this province to organize there the Département of Mont Blanc.
It was absent at the time of the judgment of Louis XVI and did not take share by the votes. April 13rd 1793, it was always absent at the time of the vote relating to the committal for trial of Marat. Returned in Paris, it attacked the Girondins savagely, treating, on May 23rd, Isnard, which chaired, of counter-revolutionary, and, on May 28th, it was opposed to the report/ratio of the decree which, the day before, had broken the Commission of the Twelve. May 31st, it was one of the most active agents of the fall of the Of Gironde ones. July 22nd, it supported the motion of Basire, asking the setting in a state of arrest of the general Custine.
In August 1793, it was sent to the Armée with the Alps with Dumaz following the invasion of its province by the troops piémontaises.
Returned in November, its relations with Herault de Séchelles and Danton, made it suspect. Robespierre reproached him for not respecting the decrees of Convention and moderantism. Simond required, in vain, the renewal of the Comité of public Hello and had to defend with the Club of the Jacobins operations contre-révolutionnaires.
A visit with the prison with a defendant of emigration was the occasion for the committee of public Hello to stop it like accomplice. It was to lock up in Luxembourg, where included in the conspiracy of the prisons, it was condemned to died the 21 germinal one (April 13rd, 1794) and guillotine the following day at the same time as Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette, Jean-Baptiste Gobel, the widow of Jacques-Rene Hébert, François Hébert, Lucile Desmoulins and others condemned.

See too

History of Savoy of 1792 to 1815

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