Historical Figures

Barère de Vieuzac Bertrand (1755 - 1841)

Lawyer in Toulouse, he was elected to the Estates General, he was then judge before the Court of Cassation of the Hautes Pyrénées . A conventional mountain dweller, he was president of the assembly during the king's trial. A member of the Committee of Public Safety, he played an important role in foreign affairs or the Navy. He is on good terms with Robespierre, but confronts him on 9 Thermidor. Accused of deportation just like Collot d'Herbois, he escapes with the help of the sans-culottes. He then goes unnoticed during the Consulate and the Empire and is on the list of regicides banished by Louis XVIII.