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JEAN BAPTISTE ROBERT LINDET (1749-1825)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 718 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:ROBERT See also:LINDET (1749-1825)  , Frenchrevolutionist, was See also:born at See also:Bernay (See also:Eure) . Before the Revolution he was an avocat at Bernay . He acted as procureur-See also:syndic of the See also:district of Bernay during the session of the Constituent See also:Assembly . Appointed See also:deputy to the Legislative Assembly and subsequently to the See also:Convention, he attained considerable prominence . He was very hostile to the See also:king, furnished a Rapport sur See also:les crimes imputes a Louia See also:Capet (loth of See also:December 1792), and voted for the See also:death of See also:Louis without See also:appeal or See also:respite . He was instrumental in the See also:establishment of the Revolutionary Tribunal and contributed to the downfall of the See also:Girondists . As member of the See also:Committee of Public Safety, he devoted himself particularly to the question of See also:food-supplies, and it was only by dint of dogged perseverance and See also:great administrative See also:talent that he was successful in See also:coping with this difficult problem . He had meanwhile been sent to suppress revolts in the districts of See also:Rhone, Eure, See also:Calvados and See also:Finistere, where he had been able to pursue a conciliatory policy . Without being formally opposed to See also:Robespierre, he did not support him, and he was the only member of the Committee of Public Safety who did not sign the See also:order for the See also:execution of See also:Danton and his party . In a like spirit of moderation he opposed the Thermidorian reaction, and defended Barere, Billaud-Varenne the See also:Collot d'Herbois from the accusations launched against them on the 22nd of See also:March 1795 . Himself denounced on the loth of May 1795, he was defended by his See also:brother See also:Thomas, but only escaped condemnation by the See also:vote of See also:amnesty of the 4th of See also:Brumaire, See also:year IV . (26th of See also:October 1795) .

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minister of See also:finance from the 18th of See also:June to the 9th of See also:November 1799, but refused See also:office under the Consulate and the See also:Empire . In 1816 he was proscribed by the Restoration See also:government as a See also:regicide, and did not return to See also:France until just before his death on the 17th of See also:February 1825 . His brother Thomas made some See also:mark as a Constitutional See also:bishop and member of the Convention . See Amand Montier, See also:Robert See also:Lindet (See also:Paris, 1899) ; H . See also:Turpin, Thomas Lindet (Bernay, 1886) ; A . Montier, Correspondance de Thomas Lindet (Paris, 1899) .

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