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French politician (1758?1793)
Armand Gensonne
(
French pronunciation:
[a?m??
???s?ne]
, 10 August 1758 – 31 October 1793) was a French politician.
The son of a military
surgeon
, he was born in
Bordeaux
, Gascony, and studied Law before the outbreak of the
French Revolution
, becoming lawyer of the
parlement
of Bordeaux. In 1790 he became
procureur
of the Bordeaux Commune, and in July 1791 was elected by the newly created
departement
of the
Gironde
a member of the
court of appeal
.
In the same year he was elected deputy for the
departement
to the
Legislative Assembly
. As
rapporteur
of the diplomatic committee, in which he supported the policy of
Jacques Pierre Brissot
, he proposed two of the most revolutionary measures passed by the Assembly: the decree of accusation against the
King
Louis XVI
's brothers (the
Comte de Provence
and the
Comte d'Artois
) on 1 January 1792, and the declaration of war against the
Habsburg
ruler
Francis II
(20 April 1792).
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He denounced of the intrigues of the court and of the
Comite autrichien
(“Austrian committee”, the purported royalist group supporting the Austrians with whom
the country was at war
[2]
), but the violence of the extreme
republicans
, culminating in the
riots of 10 August
, alarmed him.
[1]
Elected to the
National Convention
, where he was regarded as one of the most brilliant of the group of
orators
from the Gironde (although he always read his speeches), Gensonne denounced, on 24 October, the actions of the
Paris Commune
following the
September Massacres
. At the king's trial in late December, he supported an
appeal to the people
, but voted for the
death sentence
.
[1]
He participated to the Constitution Committee that drafted the
Girondin constitutional project
.
[
citation needed
]
As a member of the
Committee of General Defence
, and as president of the Convention (7 March–21 March 1793), he shared in the harsh attacks of the
Girondists
on
The Mountain
. On 2 June, after
Francois Hanriot
's anti-Girondist intervention, he was among the first of those inscribed on the prosecution list. Gensonne was tried by the
Revolutionary Tribunal
on 24 October 1793, sentenced to death and
guillotined
.
[1]
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