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CLAUDE FAUCHET (1744-1793)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 205 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLAUDE See also:FAUCHET (1744-1793)  , See also:French revolutionary See also:bishop, was See also:born at Dornes (See also:Nievre) on the 22nd of See also:September 1744 . He was a See also:curate of the See also:church of St See also:Roch, See also:Paris, when he was engaged as See also:tutor to the See also:children of the See also:marquis of See also:Choiseul, See also:brother of See also:Louis XV.'s See also:minister, an See also:appointment which proved to be the first step to See also:fortune . He was successively See also:grand See also:vicar to the See also:archbishop of See also:Bourges, preacher to the See also:king, and See also:abbot of See also:Montfort-Lacarre . The " philosophic " See also:tone of his sermons caused his dismissal from See also:court in 1788 before he became a popular See also:speaker in the Parisian sections . He was one of the leaders of the attack on the See also:Bastille, and on the 5th of See also:August 1789 he delivered an eloquent discourse by way of funeral See also:sermon'for the citizens slain on the 14th of See also:July, taking as his See also:text the words of St See also:Paul, " Ye have been called to See also:liberty." He blessed the tricolour See also:flag for the See also:National Guard, and in September was elected to the See also:Commune, from which he retired in See also:October 1790 . During the next See also:winter he organized within the Palais Royal the " Social See also:Club of the Society of the See also:Friends of Truth," presiding over crowded meetings under the self-assumed See also:title of procureur See also:general de la verite . Nevertheless, events were marching faster than his opinions, and the last occasion on which he carried his public with him was in a sermon preached at Notre See also:Dame on the 14th of See also:February 1791 . In May he became constitutional bishop of See also:Calvados, and was presently returned by the See also:department to the Legislative See also:Assembly, and afterwards to the See also:Convention . At the king's trial he voted for the See also:appeal to the See also:people and for the See also:penalty of imprisonment . He protested against the See also:execution of Louis XVI. in the See also:Journal See also:des arnis (See also:January 26, 1793), and next See also:month was denounced to the Convention for prohibiting married priests from the exercise of the priesthood in his See also:diocese . He remained secretary to the Convention until, the See also:accusation of the See also:Girondists in May 1793 . In July he was imprisoned on the See also:charge of supporting the federalist See also:movement at See also:Caen, and of complicity with See also:Charlotte See also:Corday, whom he had taken to see a sitting of the Convention on her arrival in Paris .

Of the second of these charges he was certainly See also:

innocent . With the Girondist deputies he was brought before the revolutionary tribunal on the 3oth of October, and was guillotined on the following See also:day . See Mernoires . ou Lettees de See also:Claude See also:Fauchet (5th ed., 1793) ; Notes sur Claude Fauchet (Caen, 1842) .

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