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Born in Paris and an actor by profession, after figuring for some years at the principal provincial theatres of France and Holland, he became director of the playhouse at Geneva. He had from the first a share in the revolutionary tumult; but it was not until 1791 that he became a figure of importance. Then, however, by the publication of L'Almanach du Père Gérard, a little book setting forth, in homely style, the advantages of a constitutional monarchy, he suddenly acquired great popularity.
His renown was soon increased by his active interference on behalf of the Swiss of the Château-Vieux Regiment, condemned to the galleys for mutiny at Nancy. His efforts resulted in their liberation; he went himself to Brest in search of them; and a civic feast was decreed on his behalf and theirs, which gave occasion for one of the few poems published during his life by André de Chénier. But his opinions became more and more radical. He was a member of the insurrectionary Commune of Paris during the insurrectionOn August 10, 1792, during the French Revolution, a mob with the backing of a new municipal government of Paris that came to be known as the "insurrectionary" Paris Commune besieged the Tuileries palace. King Louis XVI and the royal family took shelter wi of August 10August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 143 days remaining. The term "the 10th of August" is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792, th, 1792Events January 25 The London Corresponding Society is founded. February 20 The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington. March 16 King of Sweden Gustav III Shot in the back by Jaco, and was elected deputy for Paris to the ConventionThis article is about a legislative body and constitutional convention during the French Revolution. The term national convention also refers, in the United States, to the presidential nominating conventions. During the French Revolution, the National Con, where, on the first day of the Convention ( September 21September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). There are 101 days remaining. Events 1745 Battle of Prestonpans Hanoverian army under the command of John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward St, 1792Events January 25 The London Corresponding Society is founded. February 20 The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington. March 16 King of Sweden Gustav III Shot in the back by Jaco) he was the first to demand the abolition of royalty. He later voted the death of Louis XVILouis XVI of France ( August 23, 1754 January 21, 1793) succeeded his grandfather ( Louis XV of France) as King of France on May 10, 1774; he was crowned on June 11, 1775. His father, the Louis dauphin son of Marie Leszczynska, had died in 1765. Louis was "sans sursis" ("without delay").
In the struggle between the MountainFor the television series The Mountain see The Mountain (television series). The Mountain (in French La Montagne refers in the context of the history of the French Revolution to a political group, whose members, called Montagnards sat on the highest bench and the GirondistThe Girondists (in French Girondins and sometimes Brissotins , comprised a political faction in France within the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention during the French Revolution. The Girondists were more a group of individuals holding certais he displayed great energy; and after the coup d'état of May 31, 1793 he made himself conspicuous by his pitiless pursuit of the defeated Girondist party. In June he was made president of the Convention; and in September he was admitted to the Committee of Public Safety, on which he was very active. After having entrusted him with several missions, the Convention sent him, on October 30, 1793, to Lyons to punish the revolt of that city. There he introduced the Terror in its most terrible form.
In May 1794 an attempt was made to assassinate Collot; but it only increased his popularity, and this won him the hatred of Robespierre, against whom he took sides during Robespierre's downfall on 9 Thermidor, when he presided over the Convention during a part of the session. During the Thermidorian reaction he was one of the first to be accused of complicity with the fallen leader, but was acquitted. Denounced a second time, he defended himself by pleading that he had acted for the cause of the Revolution, but in March 1795 he was condemned with Barère and Billaud-Varenne to transportation to Cayenne, French Guiana, where he died early in 1796.