Jean-Baptiste Edmond Fleuriot-Lescot or Lescot-Fleuriot (1761 in

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– 28 July 1794 in

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) was a Belgian architect, sculptor, and a revolutionary. He lived to be only 33 years old.

Public Appointments

He was

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for 2 months and 18 days in 1794. He was elected March 13, 1793 substitute

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, public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal. Fleuriot-Lescot was appointed commissioner of public works,, the 21st floréal ( May 10, 1794). He kept the town hall for 2 months and 18 days.

The French Revolution

On the 9th of Thermidor, he published (with

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and Payan) a proclamation, in which he excited the people "to rise en masse to defend their true friends." Fleuriot-Lescot hastily assembled the council of the Commune, as Robespierre was shut up in the

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; declared insurrectionary views, and delivered the decrees of charge. At this time Robespierrists were welcomed to the Common House. The Convention struck a decree outlawing the mayor, and all the council of the commune. Fleuriot-Lescot (and 50 others) were arrested at two o'clock in the morning by the gendarmes, who remained faithful to the Convention, led by Leonard Bourdon. He appeared before the

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on the 10th of Thermidor, and was identified by Lieudon, who demanded against him to replace Fouquier-Tinville. Fleuriot-Lescot was sentenced to the guillotine; among 21 other convicts that day were Robespierre, Saint-Just, and Couthon. 1761 births Architects from Brussels Architects of the Austrian Netherlands Belgian sculptors Executed Belgian people Mayors of Paris People executed by guillotine during the French Revolution 1794 deaths {{France-mayor-stub