Brilliant speaker of the National Constituent Assembly, he forms with Lameth and Duport the opposition to Mirabeau and the right . He joined the Jacobins and became president of the Assembly in October 1790. After the episode of Varennes, he fell in love with the queen and became a defender of a constitutional monarchy. His popularity was dismantled by Robespierre and Pétion de Villeneuve. In 1792, he was arrested by the Legislative for his relations with the Court. He will be guillotined under the Terror.
Madeleine Weill, later Madeleine Braun (1907 – 1980), was a French politician. She is the first to have been elected vice-president of the National Assembly. Peace and anti-fascist activist Daughter of Gabrielle Hirsch, painter, and Albert Weill, company director, Madeleine was born on June 25 190