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JEAN FRANCOIS REWBELL (1747-1807)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 225 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:FRANCOIS See also:REWBELL (1747-1807)  , See also:French politician, was See also:born at See also:Colmar (then in the See also:department of Haut-Rhin) on the 8th of See also:October .1747 . He was See also:president (bdtonnier) of the See also:order of avocats in Colmar, and in 1789 was elected See also:deputy to the States-See also:General by the Third See also:Estate of the bailliage of Colmar-Schlestadt . In the Constituent See also:Assembly his oratorical gifts, legal knowledge and austerity of See also:life gave him much See also:influence . During the session of the Legislative Assembly he exercised the functions of procureur See also:syndic and was subsequently secretary-general of the department of Haut-Rhin . In the See also:Convention he was a zealous See also:promoter of the trial of See also:Louis XVI., but was absent on See also:mission at the See also:time of the See also:king's condemnation . He took See also:part in the reactionary See also:movement which followed the fall of See also:Robespierre, and became a member of the reorganized Committees of Public Safety and General See also:Security . The moderation he displayed caused his See also:election by seventeen departments to the See also:Council of Five See also:Hundred . Appointed a member of the See also:Directory on the 1st of October 1795, he became its president in 1796, and retired by See also:ballot in 1799• He then entered the Council of Ancients . After the coup d'etat of r8 See also:Brumaire he retired from public life, and died at Colmar on the 23rd of See also:November 1807 . See L . Sciout, Le Directoire (See also:Paris, 1895-97) .

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