List of representatives on mission
During the French Revolution (1789–1799 or 1815), a représentant en mission (English: representative on mission) was an extraordinary envoy of the Legislative Assembly. The term is most often assigned to deputies designated by the National Convention for maintaining law and order in the départements and armies. They had powers to oversee conscription into the army and to monitor both local military command and local compliance with Revolutionary agendas.
Such inspectors had existed in some form under the Ancien Régime, but the position was systematized during the Reign of Terror and the representatives were given absolute power.[1] Some of them abused their powers and exercised a veritable dictatorship at a local level.
Alphabetical list of names
Alphabetical list of names A–B
Name | Dates and Actions | Image |
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Antoine Louis Albitte | Dieppe, 30 December 1761 – 23 or 25 December 1812, Lithuania died during retreat from Russia of fatigue and hunger.[2] | |
fr:Pierre-Jean Baptiste Aiuguis | ||
Paul Barras | 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829 | |
Jean Bassal | 3 May 1802 | |
Pierre-Louis Bentabole | 4 June 1756–22 April 1798 | |
André Antoine Bernard | 19 October 1818, Funchal, Madeira (Spain). Also called Bernard de Saintes, Bernard de Xantes, André Antoine Bernard de Jeuzines, and Pioche-fer Bernard | |
fr:Claud Blad | ||
fr:Jean-Baptiste Bô | ||
Pierre Bourbotte | 5 June 1763, Vault-de-Lugny – 17 June 1795, Paris. Guillotined. | |
Leonard Bourdon | 6 November 1754, Alençon – 29 May 1807, Breslau | |
fr:Henri Gaspard Charles Bouret | ||
Jean François Boursault-Malherbe | ||
Jacques Brival | 1751–1820 |
Alphabetical list of names C–F
Name | Dates and Actions | Image |
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Paul Cadroy See also fr:Paul Cadroy | ||
Jean-Baptiste Carrier | 1756 – 16 December 1794; slaughtered thousands as a representative; guillotined | |
Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac | 0 January 1763 – 24 March 1829 | |
Guillaume Chaudron-Rousseau See also fr:Guillaume Chaudron-Rousseau | ||
Charles Cochon de Lapparent | 24 January 1750 – 17 July 1825 | |
Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois | 19 June 1749 – 8 June 1796; executed more than 2,000 in the city of Lyon while a representative on mission Deported in 1795 to French Guiana, where he died of Yellow Fever. | |
Georges Couthon | (22 December 1755 – 28 July 1794 radical, colleague with Robespierre and de Saint-Just; influential in development of Law of 22 Prairial, which increased the rate at which accused counter-revolutionaries were executed; Guillotined with Robespierre. | |
Joseph-Marie Cusset See also fr:Joseph-Marie Cusset | ||
Georges Frédéric Dentzel See also fr:Georges Frédéric Dentzel | ||
Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé | ||
fr:Antoine Dubois de Bellegarde | ||
fr:Louis Dubois du Bais | ||
André Dumont See also André Dumont | ||
Ernest Dominique François Joseph Duquesnoy | 17 May 1749, Bouvigny-Boyeffles - 17 June 1795, Paris Suicide, although condemned to guillotine. | |
Jean-François Escudier See also fr:Jean-François Escudier | ||
François Joachim Esnue-Lavallée See also fr:François Joachim Esnue-Lavallée | ||
Claude Dominique Côme Fabre See also fr:Claude Dominique Côme Fabre | ||
Gilbert-Amable Faure | ||
fr:Joseph-Pierre-Marie Fayau | ||
Joseph Fouché also called 1st Duke of Otranto | 21 May 1759 at Le Pellerin, near Nantes, France – 25 December 1820 at Trieste | |
fr:André Foussedoire | ||
fr:Marie Pierre Adrien Francastel | ||
fr:René François-Primaudière | ||
Louis Marie Stanislas Fréron | 17 August 1754 – 15 July 1802 |
Alphabetical list of names G–L
Name | Dates and Actions | Image |
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fr:Jacques Garnier de Saintes | 1817 or 1818 in Ohio (US) | |
Thomas-Augustin de Gasparin | 7 November 1793, general of brigade | |
fr:Raymond Gaston | 8 September 1836, Paris, | |
fr:Joseph-Marie Gaudin | 21 August 1818 | |
fr:Antoine-François Gauthier des Orcières | 1838 | |
Pierre-Mathurin Gillet | 4 November 1795 | |
fr:Jean-Baptiste Girot-Pouzol | ||
Jean-Marie Claude Alexandre Goujon | 17 June 1795, suicide before execution | |
fr:Jean François Marie Goupilleau de Fontenay | 11 October 1823, Montaigu, Vendée cousin, below | |
fr:Philippe Charles Aimé Goupilleau de Montaigu | 1 July 1823, Montaigu, Vendée | |
fr:Jacques Tanguy Marie Guermeur | 15 September 1798 Quimper (Brittany) | |
fr:Mathieu Guezno | ||
fr:Jean Guimberteau | ||
fr:Louis Guyardin | ||
Nicolas Hentz | 5 June 1753, Metz – after 1829 possibly near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania | |
fr:Charles-Antoine Hourier-Eloy | ||
fr:Marc-Antoine Huguet | ||
fr:Claude Javogues | ||
Jeanbon Saint-André | ||
fr:Julien-Urbain-François-Marie-Riel Lefebvre de La Chauvière | ||
fr:Antoine-Joseph Lanot | 15 February 1839, Paris | |
fr:Jacques Léonard Laplanche | ||
François Sébastien Christophe Laporte | ||
Joseph Le Bon | 29 September 1765 – 10 October 1795 Condemned to death for abuse of his power as a representative on mission. | |
fr:Joseph-François Le Malliaud de Kerharnos | 6 January 1830 at Vannes | |
Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas | 28 July 1794, Paris. Committed suicide (pistol) prior to arrests on 9 Thermidor | |
fr:Jean-Alban Lefiot | ||
fr:Sylvain-Phalier Lejeune | 7 February 1827 at Saint-Josse-ten-Noode |
Alphabetical list of names M–Z
Name | Dates and Actions | Image |
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Étienne Christophe Maignet | 22 October 1834 | |
fr:Nicolas Maure | ||
fr:Jean Nicolas Méaulle | ||
fr:Henri Menuau | ||
Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai | 26 December 1838 | |
fr:Jean-Marie François Merlino | ||
fr:Jean-Baptiste Michaud | ||
Jean-Baptiste Milhaud | 8 January 1833 | |
fr:Jean-Baptiste-Benoît Monestier | ||
fr:Pierre-Laurent Monestier | ||
fr:Joseph-Mathurin Musset | ||
fr:Jean-Baptiste Perrin des Vosges | ||
fr:Jean-Pascal Charles de Peyssard | ||
fr:Jean-Adam Pflieger, l'aîné | ||
Pierre Philippeaux | ||
fr:André Pomme | ||
fr:François-Martin Poultier | ||
Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois | ||
Pierre-Louis Prieur | ||
Joseph-Étienne Richard | ||
Augustin Robespierre | ||
fr:Pierre Roux-Fazillac | ||
Louis Félix Roux | ||
Stanislas Joseph François Xavier Rovère | ||
fr:Alexandre-Jean Ruault | ||
fr:Albert Ruelle | ||
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | ||
fr:Jean-Baptiste Michel Saladin | ||
Claude François Bruno Siblot | ||
fr:Michel-Louis Talot | ||
fr:Didier Thirion | ||
fr:Jean-Nicolas Topsent | ||
Jean-Baptiste Treilhard | ||
fr:Narcisse Trullard | ||
fr:Étienne Vidalin | ||
fr:François-Toussaint Villers | ||
Jean-Henri Voulland |