French magistrate and statesman. First president of the Cour des aides and director of the Librairie, he favored the Encyclopédie. In 1775, he was secretary to the king's household, but he had to resign in 1776. He defended Louis XVI before the Convention, and he was guillotined during the Terror.
The Revolution, by sweeping away the Old Regime, generated a veritable witch hunt against the royalists; on January 21, 1793, the Montagnards lead Louis XVI to the scaffold. Two months later, an extraordinary criminal court, called revolutionary, was created. On March 21, the Terror establishes the