See also:ANDRE JEANBON See also:SAINT ANDRE (1749-1813)
, See also:French revolutionist, was See also:born at See also:Montauban (See also:Tarn-et-See also:Garonne) on the 25th of See also:February 1749, the son of a See also:fuller
.
Although his See also:father was a See also:Protestant, St See also:Andre was brought up by the See also:Jesuits at See also:Marseilles and took orders
.
He turned Protestant, however, and became pastor at Castras and afterwards at Montauban
.
The See also:proclamation of See also:liberty of See also:worship made him a supporter of the Revolution, and he was sent as See also:deputy to the See also:Convention by the See also:department of See also:Lot
.
He sat on the See also:Mountain, voted for the See also:death of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVI. and opposed the See also:punishment of the authors of the See also:September massacres
.
In See also:July 1793 he was See also:president of the Convention, entered the See also:Committee of Public Safety the same See also:month and was sent on See also:mission to the Armies of the See also:East
.
On the 2oth of September 1793 he obtained a See also:vote of one See also:hundred million francs for constructing vessels, and from September 1793 to See also:January 1794 reorganized the military harbours of See also:Brest and See also:Cherbourg
.
In May 1794 he took See also:part with See also:Admiral Villaret de Joyeuse in a fight with the See also:English
.
Finally, after a mission in the See also:south, which lasted from July 1794 to See also:March 1795 and in which he showed See also:great moderation, he was arrested on the 28th of May 1795, but was released by the See also:amnesty of the See also:year IV
.
He was then appointed See also:consul at See also:Algiers and See also:Smyrna (1798), was kept prisoner by the See also:Turks for three years, and subsequently became See also:prefect of the department of Mont-See also:Tonnerre (18o1) and See also:commissary-See also:general of the threedepartments on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Rhine
.
He died at See also:Mainz on the loth of See also:December 1813
.
See See also:Levy-See also:Schneider, Le Conventionnel Jeanbon St Andre (See also:Paris, 1901)
.
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