https://enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Fabre_d%27Eglantine 2026-04-22T09:05:26Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.2 https://enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php?title=Fabre_d%27Eglantine&diff=1746&oldid=prev 2023-03-01T04:36:19Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 00:36, 1 March 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l17">Line 17:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 17:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Earlier in the same year, in the month of August, he got implicated with the French East India Company which was going to be one the main causes of his demise.  In October, he accused two deputies, François Chabaud and Hérault de Seychelles for their association to a foreign conspiracy led by Pitt to ruin French economy.  Then Fabre along with Delaunay, another Convention member, falsified a decree of liquidation of the India Company.  The fraud consisted in liquidating first the company which shares would drop tremendously then at a later point to pass a new decree favorable to the company.  Shares would come back up and could be sold with a huge profit.  Delaunay and Fabre d’Eglantine falsified signatures to let believe the government had already approved the liquidation.  However, when Chabaud, Delaunay and several other Convention members were detained, Fabre, [[Danton, Georges]] and [[Hebert, Jacques]] (the last two also suspected) were not arrested.  Fabre made the mistake to try too hard to divert attention from him and overexaggerate the role and responsibility of a foreign conspiracy and accused the India Company to disregard government laws, to have foreign agents in every branch of the government and to promote dishonest concepts of equality and liberty.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Earlier in the same year, in the month of August, he got implicated with the French East India Company which was going to be one the main causes of his demise.  In October, he accused two deputies, François Chabaud and Hérault de Seychelles for their association to a foreign conspiracy led by Pitt to ruin French economy.  Then Fabre along with Delaunay, another Convention member, falsified a decree of liquidation of the India Company.  The fraud consisted in liquidating first the company which shares would drop tremendously then at a later point to pass a new decree favorable to the company.  Shares would come back up and could be sold with a huge profit.  Delaunay and Fabre d’Eglantine falsified signatures to let believe the government had already approved the liquidation.  However, when Chabaud, Delaunay and several other Convention members were detained, Fabre, [[Danton, Georges]] and [[Hebert, Jacques]] (the last two also suspected) were not arrested.  Fabre made the mistake to try too hard to divert attention from him and overexaggerate the role and responsibility of a foreign conspiracy and accused the India Company to disregard government laws, to have foreign agents in every branch of the government and to promote dishonest concepts of equality and liberty.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] strongly expected Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, to influence the issue of the judgment.  The jury quickly rendered a guilty verdict.  <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He </del>was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists.  The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Fabre d’Eglantine, like </del>[[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] strongly expected Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, to influence the issue of the judgment.  The jury quickly rendered a guilty verdict.  <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Fabre </ins>was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists.  The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Like </ins>[[Desmoulins, Camille]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, Fabre d’Eglantine </ins>was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> </table>

Toubiana https://enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php?title=Fabre_d%27Eglantine&diff=1720&oldid=prev 2022-09-30T13:16:56Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:16, 30 September 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fabre started to write on his own, he composed three poems in honor of the famed French scientist, [[Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de]].  In 1778, he married Marie-Nicole Godin, granddaughter of [[Lesage, Alain-René]], famous early XVIIIth Century French writer.  In 1779, he wrote the libretto for a comic opera, &#039;&#039;Laure et Petrarque&#039;&#039;, which contained a very well-known song, &#039;&#039;Il pleut, il pleut bergère&#039;&#039; still taught in preschool and kindergarten and still used as a popular lullaby.  He also started his own theater company but must give it up for lack of success.  He wrote poems in honor of several great aristocrats such as Gustavus III of Sweden.  In 1781, because of financial trouble he left his infant with a nurse.  Finally, in 1787, he settled in Paris with his wife and for the next years produced several works, all in verse, comedies, tragedies, comic operas and farces.  Most were played on stage with a limited degree of success, some were quickly rejected because of their strong satirical twists of society and politics.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fabre started to write on his own, he composed three poems in honor of the famed French scientist, [[Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de]].  In 1778, he married Marie-Nicole Godin, granddaughter of [[Lesage, Alain-René]], famous early XVIIIth Century French writer.  In 1779, he wrote the libretto for a comic opera, &#039;&#039;Laure et Petrarque&#039;&#039;, which contained a very well-known song, &#039;&#039;Il pleut, il pleut bergère&#039;&#039; still taught in preschool and kindergarten and still used as a popular lullaby.  He also started his own theater company but must give it up for lack of success.  He wrote poems in honor of several great aristocrats such as Gustavus III of Sweden.  In 1781, because of financial trouble he left his infant with a nurse.  Finally, in 1787, he settled in Paris with his wife and for the next years produced several works, all in verse, comedies, tragedies, comic operas and farces.  Most were played on stage with a limited degree of success, some were quickly rejected because of their strong satirical twists of society and politics.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1789, he left his wife for another woman, Caroline Remy, who will give him three children, the first two dying at a very early age.  In 1790, at 40 years of age, he composed and produced his most successful and famous play, &#039;&#039;Le Philinte de Molière&#039;&#039;, which was intended to be a continuation of Molière’s play, &#039;&#039;Le Misanthrope&#039;&#039;.  His success motivated him to create more plays, among the more notable &#039;&#039;L’Apothécaire&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Isabelle de Salisbury&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;L’ Intrigue Epistolaire&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Le Convalescent&#039;&#039;, the last one being staged in 1799, five years after his death. Fabre d ’Eglantine’s literary talent has not been recognized because of the strong political and moralist overtones included in his writings.  Being a Montagnard (more extreme revolutionaries opposed to the Girondins, more moderate ones led by [[Brissot, Jacques Pierre]] and [[Vergniaud,  Pierre]]) and a Dantonist, his plays tended to be political propaganda.  He espoused the revolution ideals with great fervor, he joined the Cordeliers club and soon became the president of it.  There, he met [[Marat, Jean-Paul]] and the great revolutionary orator, [[Danton, Georges]] and was going to become one of his closest allies.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1789, he left his wife for another woman, Caroline Remy, who will give him three children, the first two dying at a very early age.  In 1790, at 40 years of age, he composed and produced his most successful and famous play, &#039;&#039;Le Philinte de Molière&#039;&#039;, which was intended to be a continuation of Molière’s play, &#039;&#039;Le Misanthrope&#039;&#039;.  His success motivated him to create more plays, among the more notable &#039;&#039;L’Apothécaire&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Isabelle de Salisbury&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;L’ Intrigue Epistolaire&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Le Convalescent&#039;&#039;, the last one being staged in 1799, five years after his death. Fabre d ’Eglantine’s literary talent has not been recognized because of the strong political and moralist overtones included in his writings.  Being a Montagnard (more extreme revolutionaries opposed to the Girondins, more moderate ones led by [[Brissot, Jacques Pierre<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]], [[Louvet</ins>]] and [[Vergniaud,  Pierre]]) and a Dantonist, his plays tended to be political propaganda.  He espoused the revolution ideals with great fervor, he joined the Cordeliers club and soon became the president of it.  There, he met [[Marat, Jean-Paul]] and the great revolutionary orator, [[Danton, Georges]] and was going to become one of his closest allies.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Early in the revolution, he was still a royalist but Louis XVI’s flight to Varennes, the king&#039;s failed attempt to join the royalist troops, changed the tone of the revolution and gave it a republican impetus.  Therefore, Fabre’s inclination changed and in September 1792, he took part in the attacks on the Tuileries but paradoxically was also accused to have offered his help to the court.  1792 and 1793 are the two years that saw Fabre reached the height of his political career, he was elected Convention Deputy, was chosen by Danton to be his secretary (along with [[Desmoulins, Camille]]), participated in attempt of reconciliation with the Girondins, and was member of the war committee and the powerful committee of public safety.  However, qualms of corruption crept up and will be used in 1794 during his trial.  He was suspected of selling 10,000 pairs of defective army boots with a large benefit which fell apart after twelve hours of use.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Early in the revolution, he was still a royalist but Louis XVI’s flight to Varennes, the king&#039;s failed attempt to join the royalist troops, changed the tone of the revolution and gave it a republican impetus.  Therefore, Fabre’s inclination changed and in September 1792, he took part in the attacks on the Tuileries but paradoxically was also accused to have offered his help to the court.  1792 and 1793 are the two years that saw Fabre reached the height of his political career, he was elected Convention Deputy, was chosen by Danton to be his secretary (along with [[Desmoulins, Camille]]), participated in attempt of reconciliation with the Girondins, and was member of the war committee and the powerful committee of public safety.  However, qualms of corruption crept up and will be used in 1794 during his trial.  He was suspected of selling 10,000 pairs of defective army boots with a large benefit which fell apart after twelve hours of use.  </div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1700:rev-1720 --> </table>

Toubiana https://enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php?title=Fabre_d%27Eglantine&diff=1700&oldid=prev 2022-07-26T13:16:53Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:16, 26 July 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l17">Line 17:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 17:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Earlier in the same year, in the month of August, he got implicated with the French East India Company which was going to be one the main causes of his demise.  In October, he accused two deputies, François Chabaud and Hérault de Seychelles for their association to a foreign conspiracy led by Pitt to ruin French economy.  Then Fabre along with Delaunay, another Convention member, falsified a decree of liquidation of the India Company.  The fraud consisted in liquidating first the company which shares would drop tremendously then at a later point to pass a new decree favorable to the company.  Shares would come back up and could be sold with a huge profit.  Delaunay and Fabre d’Eglantine falsified signatures to let believe the government had already approved the liquidation.  However, when Chabaud, Delaunay and several other Convention members were detained, Fabre, [[Danton, Georges]] and [[Hebert, Jacques]] (the last two also suspected) were not arrested.  Fabre made the mistake to try too hard to divert attention from him and overexaggerate the role and responsibility of a foreign conspiracy and accused the India Company to disregard government laws, to have foreign agents in every branch of the government and to promote dishonest concepts of equality and liberty.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Earlier in the same year, in the month of August, he got implicated with the French East India Company which was going to be one the main causes of his demise.  In October, he accused two deputies, François Chabaud and Hérault de Seychelles for their association to a foreign conspiracy led by Pitt to ruin French economy.  Then Fabre along with Delaunay, another Convention member, falsified a decree of liquidation of the India Company.  The fraud consisted in liquidating first the company which shares would drop tremendously then at a later point to pass a new decree favorable to the company.  Shares would come back up and could be sold with a huge profit.  Delaunay and Fabre d’Eglantine falsified signatures to let believe the government had already approved the liquidation.  However, when Chabaud, Delaunay and several other Convention members were detained, Fabre, [[Danton, Georges]] and [[Hebert, Jacques]] (the last two also suspected) were not arrested.  Fabre made the mistake to try too hard to divert attention from him and overexaggerate the role and responsibility of a foreign conspiracy and accused the India Company to disregard government laws, to have foreign agents in every branch of the government and to promote dishonest concepts of equality and liberty.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] strongly expected Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, to influence the issue of the judgment.  The jury quickly rendered a guilty verdict.  He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">  </del>The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] strongly expected Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, to influence the issue of the judgment.  The jury quickly rendered a guilty verdict.  He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; 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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:14, 26 July 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l17">Line 17:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 17:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Earlier in the same year, in the month of August, he got implicated with the French East India Company which was going to be one the main causes of his demise.  In October, he accused two deputies, François Chabaud and Hérault de Seychelles for their association to a foreign conspiracy led by Pitt to ruin French economy.  Then Fabre along with Delaunay, another Convention member, falsified a decree of liquidation of the India Company.  The fraud consisted in liquidating first the company which shares would drop tremendously then at a later point to pass a new decree favorable to the company.  Shares would come back up and could be sold with a huge profit.  Delaunay and Fabre d’Eglantine falsified signatures to let believe the government had already approved the liquidation.  However, when Chabaud, Delaunay and several other Convention members were detained, Fabre, [[Danton, Georges]] and [[Hebert, Jacques]] (the last two also suspected) were not arrested.  Fabre made the mistake to try too hard to divert attention from him and overexaggerate the role and responsibility of a foreign conspiracy and accused the India Company to disregard government laws, to have foreign agents in every branch of the government and to promote dishonest concepts of equality and liberty.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Earlier in the same year, in the month of August, he got implicated with the French East India Company which was going to be one the main causes of his demise.  In October, he accused two deputies, François Chabaud and Hérault de Seychelles for their association to a foreign conspiracy led by Pitt to ruin French economy.  Then Fabre along with Delaunay, another Convention member, falsified a decree of liquidation of the India Company.  The fraud consisted in liquidating first the company which shares would drop tremendously then at a later point to pass a new decree favorable to the company.  Shares would come back up and could be sold with a huge profit.  Delaunay and Fabre d’Eglantine falsified signatures to let believe the government had already approved the liquidation.  However, when Chabaud, Delaunay and several other Convention members were detained, Fabre, [[Danton, Georges]] and [[Hebert, Jacques]] (the last two also suspected) were not arrested.  Fabre made the mistake to try too hard to divert attention from him and overexaggerate the role and responsibility of a foreign conspiracy and accused the India Company to disregard government laws, to have foreign agents in every branch of the government and to promote dishonest concepts of equality and liberty.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  The jury quickly judged him guilty.  He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists</del>.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] strongly expected Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, to influence the issue of the verdict.  The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] strongly expected Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, to influence the issue of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">judgment.  The jury quickly rendered a guilty </ins>verdict.  <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists.    </ins>The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; 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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:08, 26 July 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l17">Line 17:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 17:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Earlier in the same year, in the month of August, he got implicated with the French East India Company which was going to be one the main causes of his demise.  In October, he accused two deputies, François Chabaud and Hérault de Seychelles for their association to a foreign conspiracy led by Pitt to ruin French economy.  Then Fabre along with Delaunay, another Convention member, falsified a decree of liquidation of the India Company.  The fraud consisted in liquidating first the company which shares would drop tremendously then at a later point to pass a new decree favorable to the company.  Shares would come back up and could be sold with a huge profit.  Delaunay and Fabre d’Eglantine falsified signatures to let believe the government had already approved the liquidation.  However, when Chabaud, Delaunay and several other Convention members were detained, Fabre, [[Danton, Georges]] and [[Hebert, Jacques]] (the last two also suspected) were not arrested.  Fabre made the mistake to try too hard to divert attention from him and overexaggerate the role and responsibility of a foreign conspiracy and accused the India Company to disregard government laws, to have foreign agents in every branch of the government and to promote dishonest concepts of equality and liberty.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Earlier in the same year, in the month of August, he got implicated with the French East India Company which was going to be one the main causes of his demise.  In October, he accused two deputies, François Chabaud and Hérault de Seychelles for their association to a foreign conspiracy led by Pitt to ruin French economy.  Then Fabre along with Delaunay, another Convention member, falsified a decree of liquidation of the India Company.  The fraud consisted in liquidating first the company which shares would drop tremendously then at a later point to pass a new decree favorable to the company.  Shares would come back up and could be sold with a huge profit.  Delaunay and Fabre d’Eglantine falsified signatures to let believe the government had already approved the liquidation.  However, when Chabaud, Delaunay and several other Convention members were detained, Fabre, [[Danton, Georges]] and [[Hebert, Jacques]] (the last two also suspected) were not arrested.  Fabre made the mistake to try too hard to divert attention from him and overexaggerate the role and responsibility of a foreign conspiracy and accused the India Company to disregard government laws, to have foreign agents in every branch of the government and to promote dishonest concepts of equality and liberty.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had given clear indications to </del>Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">about </del>the issue of the verdict.  The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  The jury quickly judged him guilty</ins>.  He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strongly expected </ins>Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to influence </ins>the issue of the verdict.  The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> </table>

Toubiana https://enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php?title=Fabre_d%27Eglantine&diff=1697&oldid=prev 2022-07-26T12:48:59Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 08:48, 26 July 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Early in the revolution, he was still a royalist but Louis XVI’s flight to Varennes, the king&#039;s failed attempt to join the royalist troops, changed the tone of the revolution and gave it a republican impetus.  Therefore, Fabre’s inclination changed and in September 1792, he took part in the attacks on the Tuileries but paradoxically was also accused to have offered his help to the court.  1792 and 1793 are the two years that saw Fabre reached the height of his political career, he was elected Convention Deputy, was chosen by Danton to be his secretary (along with [[Desmoulins, Camille]]), participated in attempt of reconciliation with the Girondins, and was member of the war committee and the powerful committee of public safety.  However, qualms of corruption crept up and will be used in 1794 during his trial.  He was suspected of selling 10,000 pairs of defective army boots with a large benefit which fell apart after twelve hours of use.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Early in the revolution, he was still a royalist but Louis XVI’s flight to Varennes, the king&#039;s failed attempt to join the royalist troops, changed the tone of the revolution and gave it a republican impetus.  Therefore, Fabre’s inclination changed and in September 1792, he took part in the attacks on the Tuileries but paradoxically was also accused to have offered his help to the court.  1792 and 1793 are the two years that saw Fabre reached the height of his political career, he was elected Convention Deputy, was chosen by Danton to be his secretary (along with [[Desmoulins, Camille]]), participated in attempt of reconciliation with the Girondins, and was member of the war committee and the powerful committee of public safety.  However, qualms of corruption crept up and will be used in 1794 during his trial.  He was suspected of selling 10,000 pairs of defective army boots with a large benefit which fell apart after twelve hours of use.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fabre was criticized for regarding the revolution in the same way he viewed his plays and was said to observe the Assembly through his pair of lorgnette like a spectator at the theater which had a knack for irritating [[Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de]].  As a member of the Convention, he followed Danton’s politics.  He voted for the king’s death and after [[Dumouriez]]’s defection to the Austrians in 1793, he turned against the Girondins and led a campaign against them as the chief editor of &#039;&#039;La Gazette de France nationale&#039;&#039;.  His main reproach to the Girondins was that he believed they used the common people to generate turmoil when needed but discarded them when making political decisions.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fabre was criticized for regarding the revolution in the same way he viewed his plays and was said to observe the Assembly through his pair of lorgnette like a spectator at the theater which had a knack for irritating [[Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de]].  As a member of the Convention, he followed Danton’s politics.  He voted for the king’s death and after <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">general </ins>[[Dumouriez]]’s defection to the Austrians in 1793, he turned against the Girondins and led a campaign against them as the chief editor of &#039;&#039;La Gazette de France nationale&#039;&#039;.  His main reproach to the Girondins was that he believed they used the common people to generate turmoil when needed but discarded them when making political decisions.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>   </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In October 1793, the Convention wanted to get rid of the Gregorian calendar to adopt a calendar starting the year on September 22 -the day of the monarchy’s abolishment- renaming the days and months on republican and agricultural principles.  Because of his literary reputation, Fabre was the main member of the committee in charge of the task comprising Marie-Joseph Chénier (brother of the revolution poet, André Chénier) and the famous painter, [[David, Jacques-Louis]].  Fabre was credited with the new names’ creativity.  He considered the Gregorian calendar a tool used by the church to keep the people in a life of superstition contaminated with bigotry, deceit and falseness.  Every month lasted thirty days.  Starting September 22nd, Vendémiaire (Vintage month) was the first month, October 22nd came Brumaire (Misty), November 22nd came Frimaire (Frosty), December 22nd came Nivose (Snowy), January 22nd came Pluviose (Rainy), February 22nd came Ventose (Windy), March 22nd came Germinal (Buddy), April 22nd came Floréal (Flowery), May 22nd came Prairial (Meadowy), June 22nd came Messidor (Harvesty), July 22nd came Thermidor (Sunny) and August 22nd came Fructidor (Fruty).  The five missing days to complete the year were devoted to different holidays at the end of the year, the first devoted to Virtue, the second to Intelligence, the third to Labor, the fourth to Opinion and the fifth one to Rewards. On a leap year, the extra day would be devoted to celebrate liberty, equality and fraternity to strengthen national unity.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In October 1793, the Convention wanted to get rid of the Gregorian calendar to adopt a calendar starting the year on September 22 -the day of the monarchy’s abolishment- renaming the days and months on republican and agricultural principles.  Because of his literary reputation, Fabre was the main member of the committee in charge of the task comprising Marie-Joseph Chénier (brother of the revolution poet, André Chénier) and the famous painter, [[David, Jacques-Louis]].  Fabre was credited with the new names’ creativity.  He considered the Gregorian calendar a tool used by the church to keep the people in a life of superstition contaminated with bigotry, deceit and falseness.  Every month lasted thirty days.  Starting September 22nd, Vendémiaire (Vintage month) was the first month, October 22nd came Brumaire (Misty), November 22nd came Frimaire (Frosty), December 22nd came Nivose (Snowy), January 22nd came Pluviose (Rainy), February 22nd came Ventose (Windy), March 22nd came Germinal (Buddy), April 22nd came Floréal (Flowery), May 22nd came Prairial (Meadowy), June 22nd came Messidor (Harvesty), July 22nd came Thermidor (Sunny) and August 22nd came Fructidor (Fruty).  The five missing days to complete the year were devoted to different holidays at the end of the year, the first devoted to Virtue, the second to Intelligence, the third to Labor, the fourth to Opinion and the fifth one to Rewards. On a leap year, the extra day would be devoted to celebrate liberty, equality and fraternity to strengthen national unity.  </div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1689:rev-1697 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:12, 20 July 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l18">Line 18:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 18:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] had given clear indications to Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, about the issue of the verdict.  The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] had given clear indications to Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, about the issue of the verdict.  The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Further Reading:</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Further Reading:</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Louis Jacob, &#039;&#039;Fabre d&#039;Eglantine, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">chef </del>des fripons&#039;&#039;.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Louis Jacob, &#039;&#039;Fabre d&#039;Eglantine, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Chef </ins>des fripons&#039;&#039;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, 1946</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1688:rev-1689 --> </table>

Toubiana https://enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php?title=Fabre_d%27Eglantine&diff=1688&oldid=prev 2022-07-21T03:10:37Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:10, 20 July 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l18">Line 18:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 18:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] had given clear indications to Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, about the issue of the verdict.  The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] had given clear indications to Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, about the issue of the verdict.  The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Further Reading:</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Louis Jacob, ''Fabre d'Eglantine, chef des fripons''.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1682:rev-1688 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:31, 20 July 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l15">Line 15:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 15:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In October 1793, the Convention wanted to get rid of the Gregorian calendar to adopt a calendar starting the year on September 22 -the day of the monarchy’s abolishment- renaming the days and months on republican and agricultural principles.  Because of his literary reputation, Fabre was the main member of the committee in charge of the task comprising Marie-Joseph Chénier (brother of the revolution poet, André Chénier) and the famous painter, [[David, Jacques-Louis]].  Fabre was credited with the new names’ creativity.  He considered the Gregorian calendar a tool used by the church to keep the people in a life of superstition contaminated with bigotry, deceit and falseness.  Every month lasted thirty days.  Starting September 22nd, Vendémiaire (Vintage month) was the first month, October 22nd came Brumaire (Misty), November 22nd came Frimaire (Frosty), December 22nd came Nivose (Snowy), January 22nd came Pluviose (Rainy), February 22nd came Ventose (Windy), March 22nd came Germinal (Buddy), April 22nd came Floréal (Flowery), May 22nd came Prairial (Meadowy), June 22nd came Messidor (Harvesty), July 22nd came Thermidor (Sunny) and August 22nd came Fructidor (Fruty).  The five missing days to complete the year were devoted to different holidays at the end of the year, the first devoted to Virtue, the second to Intelligence, the third to Labor, the fourth to Opinion and the fifth one to Rewards. On a leap year, the extra day would be devoted to celebrate liberty, equality and fraternity to strengthen national unity.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In October 1793, the Convention wanted to get rid of the Gregorian calendar to adopt a calendar starting the year on September 22 -the day of the monarchy’s abolishment- renaming the days and months on republican and agricultural principles.  Because of his literary reputation, Fabre was the main member of the committee in charge of the task comprising Marie-Joseph Chénier (brother of the revolution poet, André Chénier) and the famous painter, [[David, Jacques-Louis]].  Fabre was credited with the new names’ creativity.  He considered the Gregorian calendar a tool used by the church to keep the people in a life of superstition contaminated with bigotry, deceit and falseness.  Every month lasted thirty days.  Starting September 22nd, Vendémiaire (Vintage month) was the first month, October 22nd came Brumaire (Misty), November 22nd came Frimaire (Frosty), December 22nd came Nivose (Snowy), January 22nd came Pluviose (Rainy), February 22nd came Ventose (Windy), March 22nd came Germinal (Buddy), April 22nd came Floréal (Flowery), May 22nd came Prairial (Meadowy), June 22nd came Messidor (Harvesty), July 22nd came Thermidor (Sunny) and August 22nd came Fructidor (Fruty).  The five missing days to complete the year were devoted to different holidays at the end of the year, the first devoted to Virtue, the second to Intelligence, the third to Labor, the fourth to Opinion and the fifth one to Rewards. On a leap year, the extra day would be devoted to celebrate liberty, equality and fraternity to strengthen national unity.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>   </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Earlier in the same year, in the month of August, he got implicated with the French East India Company which was going to be one the main causes of his demise.  In October, he accused two deputies, François Chabaud and Hérault de Seychelles for their association to a foreign conspiracy led by Pitt to ruin French economy.  Then Fabre along with Delaunay, another Convention member, falsified a decree of liquidation of the India Company.  The fraud consisted in liquidating first the company which shares would drop tremendously then at a later point to pass a new decree favorable to the company.  Shares would come back up and could be sold with a huge profit.  Delaunay and Fabre d’Eglantine falsified signatures to let believe the government had already approved the liquidation.  However, when Chabaud, Delaunay and several other Convention members were detained, Fabre, Danton and [[Hebert, Jacques]] (the last two also suspected) were not arrested.  Fabre made the mistake to try too hard to divert attention from him and overexaggerate the role and responsibility of a foreign conspiracy and accused the India Company to disregard government laws, to have foreign agents in every branch of the government and to promote dishonest concepts of equality and liberty.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Earlier in the same year, in the month of August, he got implicated with the French East India Company which was going to be one the main causes of his demise.  In October, he accused two deputies, François Chabaud and Hérault de Seychelles for their association to a foreign conspiracy led by Pitt to ruin French economy.  Then Fabre along with Delaunay, another Convention member, falsified a decree of liquidation of the India Company.  The fraud consisted in liquidating first the company which shares would drop tremendously then at a later point to pass a new decree favorable to the company.  Shares would come back up and could be sold with a huge profit.  Delaunay and Fabre d’Eglantine falsified signatures to let believe the government had already approved the liquidation.  However, when Chabaud, Delaunay and several other Convention members were detained, Fabre, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Danton<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, Georges]] </ins>and [[Hebert, Jacques]] (the last two also suspected) were not arrested.  Fabre made the mistake to try too hard to divert attention from him and overexaggerate the role and responsibility of a foreign conspiracy and accused the India Company to disregard government laws, to have foreign agents in every branch of the government and to promote dishonest concepts of equality and liberty.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] had given clear indications to Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, about the issue of the verdict.  The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] had given clear indications to Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, about the issue of the verdict.  The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1681:rev-1682 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:28, 20 July 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l17">Line 17:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 17:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Earlier in the same year, in the month of August, he got implicated with the French East India Company which was going to be one the main causes of his demise.  In October, he accused two deputies, François Chabaud and Hérault de Seychelles for their association to a foreign conspiracy led by Pitt to ruin French economy.  Then Fabre along with Delaunay, another Convention member, falsified a decree of liquidation of the India Company.  The fraud consisted in liquidating first the company which shares would drop tremendously then at a later point to pass a new decree favorable to the company.  Shares would come back up and could be sold with a huge profit.  Delaunay and Fabre d’Eglantine falsified signatures to let believe the government had already approved the liquidation.  However, when Chabaud, Delaunay and several other Convention members were detained, Fabre, Danton and [[Hebert, Jacques]] (the last two also suspected) were not arrested.  Fabre made the mistake to try too hard to divert attention from him and overexaggerate the role and responsibility of a foreign conspiracy and accused the India Company to disregard government laws, to have foreign agents in every branch of the government and to promote dishonest concepts of equality and liberty.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Earlier in the same year, in the month of August, he got implicated with the French East India Company which was going to be one the main causes of his demise.  In October, he accused two deputies, François Chabaud and Hérault de Seychelles for their association to a foreign conspiracy led by Pitt to ruin French economy.  Then Fabre along with Delaunay, another Convention member, falsified a decree of liquidation of the India Company.  The fraud consisted in liquidating first the company which shares would drop tremendously then at a later point to pass a new decree favorable to the company.  Shares would come back up and could be sold with a huge profit.  Delaunay and Fabre d’Eglantine falsified signatures to let believe the government had already approved the liquidation.  However, when Chabaud, Delaunay and several other Convention members were detained, Fabre, Danton and [[Hebert, Jacques]] (the last two also suspected) were not arrested.  Fabre made the mistake to try too hard to divert attention from him and overexaggerate the role and responsibility of a foreign conspiracy and accused the India Company to disregard government laws, to have foreign agents in every branch of the government and to promote dishonest concepts of equality and liberty.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and Saint-Just seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] had given clear indications to Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, about the issue of the verdict.  The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unfortunately, his efforts had the opposite effect and instead of distancing himself from his connection, it shed more light on his fraudulent activities.  In January 1794, Amar, a Convention deputy, denounced Fabre’s misdeeds who was arrested on the 18th .  When [[Danton, Georges]] attempted to save his friend he only managed to cast more doubt upon his own involvement.  In March, Robespierre and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Saint-Just<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, Louis-Antoine de]] </ins>seized the opportunity to get rid of their more dangerous rivals in their own party, the Montagne, and transform a financial scandal into a political scheme.  A few days before, they had eliminated [[Hebert, Jacques]] and his followers, the Enragés (the Enraged, the Ultra-Revolutionary Montagnards), they could now strike a fatal blow to Danton’s faction, the Indulgents (the more moderate Montagnards) who had pointed out the excess committed during the Terror.  On 16 March 1794, Amar presented a second report and consequently Fabre d’Eglantine was brought to the revolutionary tribunal.  While in prison, he wrote a &#039;&#039;Précis apologétique&#039;&#039;, in which he tried to exonerate himself of all charges regarding the India Company.  The trial started on March 30.  He was guillotined on 5 April along with Danton and other Dantonists.  Robespierre and [[Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de]] had given clear indications to Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor, about the issue of the verdict.  The falsified decree was not even shown at the trial.  Fabre d’Eglantine, like [[Desmoulins, Camille]] was one of Danton’s close supporters and that by itself was enough to send him to the scaffold.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; 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