Pierre Philippeaux, (9 November 1754 – 5 April 1794, Paris) was a French lawyer who was a deputy to the

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Life

A lawyer then judge at the district tribunal for Le Mans, he created the newspaper ''Le défenseur de la Liberté'' at the start of the

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. He voted for the king's death and was sent on a mission to the

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where he was noted for his negligence. On his return to Paris he denounced generals Ronsin and Rossignol in a virulent pamphlet. He attracted the hostility of Collot d'Herbois and Carrier and found himself accused of treason and counter-revolutionary activities by Saint-Just. Associated with the Dantonists, he fell with them and was guillotined on 5 April 1794.

Sources

* Paul Mautouchet, ''Le conventionnel Philippeaux'', Paris, Société nouvelle de librairie et d'édition (Librairie Georges Bellais), coll. « Bibliothèque d'histoire moderne et contemporaine », 1900, XLIV-408 p. {{DEFAULTSORT:Philippeaux 1756 births 1794 deaths French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution Représentants en mission