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MARGUERITE ELIE GUADET (1753-1794)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 646 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARGUERITE See also:ELIE See also:GUADET (1753-1794)  , See also:French Revolutionist, was See also:born at St Emilion near See also:Bordeaux on the 2eth of See also:July 1758 . When the Revolution See also:broke out he had already gained a reputation as a brilliant See also:advocate at Bordeaux . In 1790 he was made See also:administrator of the See also:Gironde and in 1791 See also:president of the criminal tribunal . In this See also:year he was elected to the Legislative See also:Assembly as one of the brilliant See also:group of deputies known subsequently as Girondins or See also:Girondists . As a supporter of the constitution of 1791 he joined the Jacobin See also:club, and here and in the Assembly became an eloquent advocate of all the See also:measures directed against real or supposed traitors to the constitution . He bitterly attacked the ministers of See also:Louis XVI., and was largely instrumental in forcing the See also:king to accept the Girondist See also:ministry of the 15th of See also:March 1792 . He was an ardent advocate of the policy of forcing Louis XVI. into See also:harmony with the Revolution; moved (May 3) for the dismissal of the king's non-juring See also:confessor, for the banishment of all non-juring priests (May 16), for the disbandment of the royal guard (May 30), and the formation in See also:Paris of a See also:camp of federes (See also:June 4) . He remained a royalist, however, and with See also:Gensonne and See also:Vergniaud even addressed a See also:letter to the king soliciting a private interview . Whatever negotiations may have resulted, however, were cut See also:short by the insurrection of the loth of See also:August . See also:Guadet, who presided over the Assembly during See also:part of this fateful See also:day, put himself into vigorous opposition to the insurrectionary See also:Commune of Paris, and it was on his See also:motion that on the 3oth of August the Assembly voted its See also:dissolution—a decision reversed on the following day . In See also:September Guadet was returned by a large See also:majority as See also:deputy to the See also:Convention . At the trial of Louis XVI. he voted for an See also:appeal to the See also:people and for the See also:death See also:sentence, but with a See also:respite pending appeal .

In March 1793 he had several conferences with See also:

Danton, who was anxious to bring about a rapprochement between the Girondists and the See also:Mountain during the See also:war in La See also:Vendee, but he unconditionally refused to join hands with the See also:man whom he held responsible for the massacres of September . Involved in the fall of the Girondists, and his See also:arrest being decreed on the 2nd of June 1793, he fled to See also:Caen, and afterwards hid in his See also:father's See also:house at St Emilion . He was discovered and taken to Bordeaux, where, after his identity had been established, he was guillotined on the 17th of June 1794 . See J . Guadet, See also:Les Girondins (Paris, 1889) ; and F . A . See also:Aulard, Les Orateurs de la legislative et de la convention (Paris, 2nd ed., 1906) .

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