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

In spite of his

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

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