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See also:JEAN See also:MARIE See also:CLAUDE See also:ALEXANDRE See also:GOUJON (1766-1795)
, See also:French publicist and statesman, was See also:born at Bourg on the 13th of See also:April 1766, the son of a postmaster
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The boy went See also:early to See also:sea, and saw fighting when he was twelve years old; in 1790 he settled at See also:Meudon, and began to make See also:good his lack of See also:education
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As procureur-See also:general-See also:syndic of the See also:department of See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise, in See also:August, 1792, he had to See also:supply the inhabitants with See also:food, and fulfilled his difficult functions with See also:energy and tact
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In the See also:Convention, which he entered on the See also:death of See also:Herault de Sechelles, he took his seat on the benches of the See also:Mountain
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He conducted a See also:mission to the armies of the See also:Rhine and the Moselle with creditable moderation, and was a consistent See also:advocate of See also:peace within the See also:republic
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Nevertheless, he was a determined opponent of the See also:counter-revolution; which he denounced in the Jacobin See also:Club and from the Mountain after his recall to See also:Paris, following on the revolution of the 9th See also:Thermidor (See also:July 27, 1794)
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He was one of those who protested against the readmission of Louvet and other survivors of the Girondin party to the Convention in See also: With their deaths the Mountain ceased to exist as a party . See J . See also:Claretie, See also:Les Derniers Montagnards, histoire de l'insurrection de Prairial an III d'apres les documents (1867); Defense du representant du peuple Goujon (Paris, no date), with the letters and a hymn written by Goujon during his imprisonment . For other documents see See also:Maurice See also:Tourneux (Paris, 1890, vol. i., pp . 422-425) . |
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