Joseph Delaunay (24 December 1752,

Angers Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the pr ...

– 5 April 1794,

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) was a French deputy. He was national commissar at the Tribunal of Angers and, in 1791, he was elected as a deputy to the Legislative Assembly by the

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of Maine-et-Loire. In 1792, he was re-elected as deputy to the

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by the same département. He was tried for corruption in the affair of the liquidation of the Compagnie des Indes Orientales, condemned to death and

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d on 16 germinal year II (5 April 1794).

Sources

* ''Histoire de la Révolution française'' by Jules Michelet

External links

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Delaunay, On the reinforcement of the rôle of Paris's Comité de surveillance - Tuesday 2 October 1792
{{DEFAULTSORT:Delaunay, Joseph 1752 births 1794 deaths Deputies to the French National Convention People from Angers French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution