Joseph-Nicolas Dubarran
Barbeau du Barran (also known as Dubarran) was a member of the Committee of General Security during the Terror. Dubarran favored a practical and uncompromising approach. It was he who, in the Convention, pushed through the immediate executions of 10 Thermidor – without trial and without bothersome formalities. Immediate execution. Robespierre and his supporters were sent to the guillotine after merely confirming their identities. Yet after taking part in the fall of the so-called tyrant, Dubarran was never able to regain a political foothold. As a former terrorist, he lost his seat on the Committee of General Security. His name surfaced once more briefly in 1815, when he became a deputy in Napoleon’s parliament during the Hundred Days. After the final victory of the monarchy in France, Dubarran – regarded as a regicide – had to leave his homeland. He died in Switzerland.
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1761 - 1816
- July 3, 1761 · Born in Castelnau-d'Auzan.
- September 1792 · Deputy for the department of Gers in the National Convention.
- October 13, 1793 · Member of the Committee of General Security.
- July 27, 1794 · Dubarran takes part in the fall of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor.
- July 28, 1794 · On the morning of 10 Thermidor, he introduced, in the name of the Committee of General Security and the Committee of Public Safety, a decree in the Convention ordering that the insurgents declared outlaws be executed immediately on the Place de la Révolution — without any judicial proceedings.
- October 6, 1794 · Removed from the Committee of General Security.
- May 28, 1795 · Arrested by the Thermidorian Convention after the failed Prairial uprising.
- October 1795 · Released under the general amnesty.
- May 8, 1815 · Deputy in the Parliament of the Hundred Days.
- July 1815 · Persecuted as a regicide, he fled to Switzerland during the Restoration.
- May 16, 1816 · Died in Assens (Switzerland) at the age of 54.
Quotes
I consulted the law, and it told me that all conspirators deserve death. The same law also told me that equal crimes must receive equal punishments. I vote for death.
Dubarran’s vote in the trial of the King, January 1793.
Republics, Citizens, exist only through principles and morals. To show indulgence and weakness toward these traitors is to halt the progress of the Revolution, to destroy liberty, and to strike the patriots a mortal blow.
Dubarran before the Convention, 11 November 1793.
He took part in Robespierre’s downfall, but only in order to put himself in his place; his plan failed.
Pierer’s Universal Encyclopedia, Volume 2 (1857)
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Execution without trial
The Committee of General Security, in which Dubarran served, met in the Hôtel de Brionne, near the Tuileries
