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JEAN NICOLAS PACHE (1746-1823)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 432 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:NICOLAS See also:PACHE (1746-1823)  , See also:French politician, was See also:born in See also:Paris, of Swiss parentage, the son of the See also:concierge of the hotel of See also:Marshal de Castries . He became See also:tutor to the marshal's See also:children, and subsequently first secretary at the See also:ministry of marine, See also:head of supplies (munilionnaire See also:general See also:des vivres), and See also:comptroller of the See also:king's See also:household . After spending several years in See also:Switzerland with his See also:family, he returned to See also:France at the beginning of the Revolution . He was employed successively at the ministries of the interior and of See also:war, and waa appointed on the loth of See also:September 1793 third See also:deputy suppleant of Paris by the Luxembourg See also:section . Thus brought into See also:notice, he was made See also:minister of war in the following See also:October . See also:Pache was a Girondist himself, but aroused their hostility by his incompetence . He was supported, however, by See also:Marat, and when he was superseded in the ministry of war by See also:Beurnonville (Feb . 4, 1794) he was chosen See also:mayor by the Parisians . In that capacity he contributed to the fall of the See also:Girondists, but his relations with See also:Hebert and See also:Chaumette, and with the enemies of See also:Robespierre led to his See also:arrest on the loth of May 1794 . He owed his safety only to the See also:amnesty of the 25th of October 1795 . After acting as See also:commissary to the See also:civil hospitals of Paris in 1799, he retired from public See also:life, and died at Thin-le-Moutier on the 18th of See also:November 1823 . See L .

Pierquin, Memoires sur Pache ((See also:

Charleville, 190o) .

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