Élie Lacoste (18 September 1745 in Montignac – 26 November 1806 in Montignac) was a French politician during the French Revolution. He became the administrator of the newly created Dordogne department in 1790. He was a deputy of the Legislative Assembly in 1791, he later went to the

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for the Dordogne department in 1793, he voted for the death of King

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in his trial and took part in missions in Lot and Dordogne departments and enlisted 300,000 men to the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments for the

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. He attacked

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on 9 thermidor, year II (27 July 1794) and demanded the arrest of Georges Couthon and Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just without accusing members of the Commune of Paris.

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*''Histoire et dictionnaire de la Révolution française 1789-1799'',

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, Jean-François Fayard, Alfred Fierro {{DEFAULTSORT:Lacoste, Elie 1745 births 1806 deaths Deputies to the French National Convention People from Dordogne Presidents of the National Convention