Elected by the Third Estate, he remained discreet. As a result of the Convention he voted the death of the king. In September 1793 he joined the Committee of General Security. He actively participated in the Terror, notably in the fall of the Indulgents. Then he breaks with Robespierre and promotes Thermidor. Pursued as a former terrorist with Barère, Billaud-Varennes and Collot-d'Herbois, he escaped deportation in hiding. Compromised then in the conspiracy of Babeuf he was imprisoned and did not regain his freedom until 1799. He was proscribed as a regicide in 1816.
Despite a very short career (only seven years, from 1867 to 1874), almost 150 years after its abandonment, the name Chassepot is still present in everyones mind:it alone evokes the bloody and heroic battles of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The Chassepot rifle (from the name of its creator) or mo