Pierre-pleasant of Soubrany

Pierre-Amable Soubrany de Macholles , known as Soubrany , born on September 17th 1752 with Riom, dead on June 17th 1795 with Paris, is a Révolutionnaire French.

Descendant of an old noble family of the Puy-de-Dôme, wire of Amable Soubrany de Verrières, general treasurer of France with Riom, Soubrany enters in 1774 to the regiment of the Royal-Dragons. But he hardly gets along with the other officers, fights in duel and ends up giving his resignation in 1789, whereas he is second lieutenant, because a promotion which he estimated to deserve came from him to be refused. Bound by the friendship to its compatriot Gilbert Rome, it is filled with enthusiasm for the Révolution, becoming successively ordering national guard riomoise, then mayor. Elected with the Legislative like Rome, it is hardly distinguished there: it is not a policy, but a soldier, of temperament. Elected official with the Convention, it sits on the benches of the Montagne and votes the death of the king.

It is as a representative on mission that Soubrany shows all its qualities. Member of the Military committee of Convention, it spends almost all his time to the armies as from spring 93. Sent in the Moselle in April, it announces to Convention the suspect acts of Custine. In December, it sets out again for the army of the Eastern Pyrenees, where, for eight month, it gives all its measurement. In company of Milhaud, it ensures the provisioning of the army with effectiveness and fights in person with the head of the troops. Sharing the life and the food of the privates, it becomes the idol of the troops, in spite of the rigor of its terrorism. Under his command, all the staff of the army is purified; following defeats, three generals, of Aoust, Delattre and Ramel, as well as other officers, are submitted with the revolutionary Tribunal or in front of jurisdictions local of exception and condemned to death.

Soubrany also carries out in its missions a political action. With Dugommier and Milhaud, it publishes in February 94 the Avant-garde of the army of the the Eastern Pyrenees , a patriotic newspaper addressed to the soldiers who lasts until the end of his mission, containing the addresses of the local popular companies, the decrees and proclamations of representatives and the calculation of the judgments striking presumedly inaccurate officers and soldiers. It also reorganizes revolutionary justice, by amalgamating the military criminal court and the criminal court of the department of the Eastern Pyrenees, to create a revolutionary military tribunal. In spring 1794, it also establishes a military commission, which must as well judge the cases of flight or insubordination that those of desertion. In all, these jurisdictions condemn to death 22 officers and 30 soldiers. These rigorous measurements allow a rectification of the army, which gains soon several victories.

Of return to Paris in October 1794, after the Fall of Robespierre, Soubrany discovers with horror the reaction thermidorienne, although he did not never appreciate Robespierre and scrambled himself with his compatriot Couthon. Rioters having, during the insurrection of meadow year III, claimed that it is named ordering army of the interior, the liberal and moderated majority benefits from it to make it issue charge by Convention, whereas it was absent, this day, and had not taken any share with the insurrection. Rather than to flee, Soubrany will be constituted captive with the Parliament by learning that Gilbert Rome was stopped. Imprisoned with his friend with the Castle of the Bull, to Morlaix, he is condemned to died at the same time as him after a sham trial. In agreement with Rome and the four others condemned (Pin, Bourbotte, Duquesnoy and Duroy), he stabs himself with the advertisement of the judgment, but does not manage to commit suicide immediately. One extends it in the cart which leads it to the torment, but he dies during the way, and it is a corpse which the guillotine decapitates.

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