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FRANCOIS CHABOT (1757-1794)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 785 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCOIS CHABOT (1757-1794)  , French revolutionist, had been a Franciscan friar before the Revolution, and after the
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civil constitution of the clergy continued to act as " constitutional " priest, becoming
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grand vicar of
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Henri Gregoire, bishop of
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Blois . Then he was elected to the Legislative Assembly, sitting at the extreme
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left, and forming with C . Bazire and Merlin de Thionville the " Cordelier trio." Re-elected to the Convention he voted for the
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death of Louis XVI., and opposed the proposal to prosecute the authors of the
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massacre of September, " because among them there are heroes of Jemmapes." Some of his sayings are well known, such as that Christ was the first " sans-culotte." Compromised in the falsification of a decree suppressing the India
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Company and in a plot to bribe certain members of the Convention, especially Fabre d'Eglantine and C .

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