Robert Lindet

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Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet , born with Bernay, probably on May 2nd 1746, died in Paris, on February 16th 1825, is a French revolutionist and politician.

Born in a family from tradesmen (his father is wood merchant), Lindet is lawyer, then prosecutor of the king to the election of Bernay in 1776, rival borough of Évreux. At the beginning of the Revolution, he is elected mayor of Bernay in 1790. The following year, he is elected appointed the Eure (just like his/her brother Thomas Lindet) with the legislative Assemblée. Member of the Jacobins, it sits on the benches of the Montagne. Re-elected in 1792 with the national Convention, it will write the Rapport on the crimes charged to Louis Capet , voter then the death of the king, without deferment.

It is then is indicated as rapporteur of the bill concerning the creation of the revolutionary Tribunal (March 10th, 1793). June 11th, indicated by Convention like representative of the people in the the Eure and the Apple-brandy, he is opposed to carried out deputies of Gironde, who try to raise the Normandy against Convention. Named with the Committee of public hello during its creation, on April 6th, 1793, it leaves it during the renewal of June 13rd, before reinstating it in July. In the committee, where work is collective, it deals particularly of finances, the subsistence and the correspondence. Representing on mission in Normandy since July 4th, it represses with flexibility and moderation the federalistic disorders in the Eure, then in the Apple-brandy. Of return to the committee, in October, it achieves an important work in the fields of agriculture, transport, of the trade, to fight against the Famine which threatens Paris. In March 1794, he refuses to sign the decree of arrest of Danton, informant: “I am here to help the citizens, not to kill the patriots”, and makes warn the chief of the Indulgents. He chairs the Convention of 1st the 16 floréal, any part the does not play Thermidor 9 and leaves the committee of public hello in the month of October 1794.

The support which it brings to the committee is worth him to be attacked by the thermidoriens, even if, on September 20th, it announces the end of the directed economy instituted by the revolutionary Gouvernement of year II and the return of the liberal economy. He is issued of arrest the meadow 12 year III and is imprisoned with the Four-Nations. Released the Thermidor 12 year III, Lindet is elected with the Conseil of the Five hundred, but isolated, because declared ineligible. He refuses then the stations which the Directoire offers to him. Compromised in the Conspiracy of Equal the of Gracchus Babeuf, he manages to flee. Thereafter, it is done, like many babouvists, to clear.

Named in July 1799 Minister for Finance, it leaves the political life after the Coup d'etat of the 18 brumaire, which it rejects, and takes again its activity of lawyer. Condemned to the exile in 1816, he will however manage to remain in Paris until his death.