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PIERRE ROGER DUCOS (1754-1816)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 633 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE See also:ROGER See also:DUCOS (1754-1816)  , See also:French politician and director, was See also:born at Dax . He was an See also:advocate when elected See also:deputy to the See also:Convention by the See also:department of the See also:Landes . He sat in the " See also:Plain," i.e. in the party which had no See also:opinion of its own, which always leaned to the stronger See also:side . He voted for the See also:death of See also:Louis XVI., without See also:appeal or delay, but played no noticeable See also:part in the Convention . He was a member of the See also:Council of the Five See also:Hundred, over which he presided on the 18th of Fructidor in the See also:year V . (see FRENCH REVOLUTION) . At the end of his See also:term he became a See also:judge of the See also:peace, but after the See also:parliamentary coup d'etat of the 3oth of Prairial of the year VIII. he was named a member of the executive See also:Directory, thanks to the See also:influence of See also:Barras, who counted on using him as a passive See also:instrument . See also:Ducos accepted the coup d'etat of See also:Bonaparte on the 18th of See also:Brumaire, and was one of the three provisional consuls . He became See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:senate . The See also:Empire heaped favours upon him, but in 1814 he abandoned See also:Napoleon, and voted for his deposition . He sought to gain the favour of the See also:government of the Restoration, but in 1816 was exiled in virtue of the See also:law against the regicides . He died in See also:March 1816 at See also:Ulm, from a See also:carriage See also:accident .

In spite of his See also:

absolute lack of See also:talent, he attained the highest of positions—an exceptional fact in the See also:history of the French Revolution .

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