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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 490 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCOIS RENE AUGUSTE See also:MALLARME (1755-i835)  , See also:French Revolutionist, the son of a lawyer, was See also:born at See also:Nancy on the 25th of See also:February 1755 . He was brought up in his See also:father's profession, and was appointed procureur-See also:syndic of the See also:district of See also:Pont-a.-Mousson . During the Revolution he was elected by the See also:department of Meurthe See also:deputy to the Legislative See also:Assembly and the See also:Convention, where he attached himself to the See also:Mountain and voted for the See also:death of See also:Louis XVI . He was elected See also:president of the Convention on the 3oth of May 1793, and by his weakness during the crisis of the following See also:day contributed much to the success of the insurrection against the See also:Girondists . He took an active See also:part in the See also:levee-en-masse, and in See also:November 1793 was given the task of establishing the revolutionary See also:government in the departments of See also:Meuse and Moselle, where he gained an unenviable notoriety by ordering the See also:execution of the See also:sentence of death decreed by the revolutionary tribunal on some See also:young girls at See also:Verdun who had offered See also:flowers to the Prussians when they entered the See also:town . After the fall of See also:Robespierre he joined the See also:group of " Thermidorians " and was sent on See also:mission to the See also:south of See also:France, where he closed the Jacobin See also:club at See also:Toulouse and set See also:free a number of imprisoned " suspects." On the 1st of See also:June 1795 he was denounced and arrested, but was soon set at See also:liberty . In 1796 he was appointed by the See also:Directory See also:commissioner for the organization of the departments of Dyle and Mont-See also:Tonnerre . Under the See also:empire he was See also:receiver of the droits reunis at Nancy, and lost his See also:money in 1814 in raising a See also:levy of See also:volunteers . Appointed sub-See also:prefect of See also:Avesnes during the See also:Hundred Days, he was imprisoned by the Prussians in revenge for the death of the maidens of Verdun, and lived in See also:exile during the Restoration . He returned to France after the revolution of 183o, and died at Richemont (See also:Seine-Inferieure) on the 25th of See also:July 1835 .

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