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FRANCOIS See also:NICOLAS LEONARD See also:BUZOT (176o-1794)  , See also:French revolutionist, was See also:born at See also:Evreux on the 1st of See also:March 1760 . He studied See also:law, and at the outbreak of the Revolution was an See also:advocate in his native See also:town . In 1789 he was elected See also:deputy to the states-See also:general, and there became known for his advanced opinions . He demanded the nationalization of the possessions of the See also:clergy, and the right of all citizens to carry arms . After the See also:dissolution of the Constituent See also:Assembly, See also:Buzot returned to Evreux, where he was named See also:president of the criminal tribunal . In 1792 he was elected deputy to the See also:Convention, and took his See also:place among the See also:Girondists . He demanded the formation of a See also:national guard from the departments to defend the Convention against the populace of See also:Paris . His proposal was carried, but never put into force; and the Parisians were extremely See also:bitter against him and the Girondists . In the trial of See also:Louis XVI., Buzot voted for See also:death, but with See also:appeal to the See also:people and postponement of See also:sentence . He had a See also:decree of death passed against the emigres who did not return to See also:France, and against anyone who should demand the re-See also:establishment of the See also:monarchy . Proscribed with the Girondists on the 2nd of See also:June 1793, he succeeded in escaping, and took See also:refuge in See also:Normandy, where he contributed to organize a federalist insurrection against the Convention, which was speedily suppressed . Buzot was outlawed, and fled to the neighbourhood of See also:Bordeaux, and committed See also:suicide in the See also:woods of St Emilion on the 18th of June 1794 .

He was an intelligent and honest See also:

man, although he seems to have profited by the See also:sale of the possessions of the clergy, but he had a stubborn, unyielding temperament, was incapable of making concessions, and was dominated by Madame See also:Roland, who imparted to him her hatred of See also:Danton and the Montagnards . See Memoires de Petion, See also:Barbaroux, Buzot, published by C . A . Daubon (Paris, 1866) . For the See also:history of the federalist See also:movement in Normandy, see L . See also:Boivin See also:Champeaux, Notices pour servir a 1'histoire de la Revolution dans le departement de l'See also:Eure (Evreux and Paris, 1884) .

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