COMTE CLAIR

See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

ANTOINE

See also:

• COMTE CLAIR ANTOINE THIBAUDEAU (1765—1854)

THIBAUDEAU (1765—1854)  , French politician, was born on the 23rd of March 1765, the son of Antoine de Thibaudeau (1739—1813), a lawyer of Poitiers and a deputy to the States-General of 1789 . He was admitted to the bar in 1787, and in 1789 accompanied his father to the States-General at Versailles . When he returned to Poitiers in October he immediately set up a local revolutionary club, and in 1792 was returned as a deputy to the Convention . Thibaudeau joined the party of the Mountain and voted for the death of Louis XVI. unconditionally . Nevertheless he incurred a certain amount of suspicion because he declined to join the Jacobin Club . In May 1793 he was on a special mission in the west and prevented his department from joining the Federalist movement . Thibaudeau occupied himself more particularly with educational business, notably in the organization of the museum of the Louvre . It was he who secured the inclusion of Tom Paine's name in the amnesty of Girondist deputies . Secretary and then president of the Convention for a short period, he served on the Committee of Public Safety and of Generaly Security . After the insurrection of 13 Vendb- The special value of Thibaudeau's works arises from the fact that he wrote only of those events of which he had personal know-ledge, and that he quotes with great accuracy Napoleon's actual words . His Memoires sur le Consulat has been translated into English, with introduction and necessary notes, by G . K .

Fortescue with the title of Bonaparte and the Consulate (1908) . Among the papers left by Thibaudeau were documents entitled Ma Biographic and Memoires avant ma nomination d la Convention .