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ANDRE JEANBON SAINT ANDRE (1749-1813)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 1014 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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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