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CLAUDE BAZIRE (1764-1794)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 561 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLAUDE BAZIRE (1764-1794)  , French revolutionist, was deputy for the Cote d'Or in the Legislative Assembly, and made himself prominent by denouncing the court and the "
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Austrian committee "of the Tuileries . On the loth of
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June 1792 he spoke in favour of the deposition of the king . In tl}e Convention he sat with the Mountain, opposed adjourning the trial of Louis XVI., and voted for his
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death . He joined in the attack upon the Girondists, but, as member of the committee of general security, he condemned the
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system of the Terror . He was implicated by Francois Chabot in the falsification of a decree relative to the East India
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Company, and though his share seems to have been simply that he did not reveal the plot, of which he knew but
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part, he was accused before the Revolutionary Tribunal at the same time as Danton and Camille Desmoulins, and was executed on the 5th of
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April 1794 .

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