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. 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
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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. |
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| fr:Pierre-Jean Baptiste Aiuguis | ||
| Paul Barras | 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829 | 
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| Jean Bassal | 3 May 1802 | |
| Pierre-Louis Bentabole | 4 June 1756–22 April 1798 | 
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| 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 | 
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| fr:Claud Blad | ||
| fr:Jean-Baptiste Bô | ||
| Pierre Bourbotte | 5 June 1763, Vault-de-Lugny – 17 June 1795, Paris. Guillotined. |
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| Leonard Bourdon | 6 November 1754, Alençon – 29 May 1807, Breslau | .JPG)
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| fr:Henri Gaspard Charles Bouret | ||
| Jean François Boursault-Malherbe | ||
| Jacques Brival | 1751–1820 |
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Alphabetical list of names C–F
| Name | Dates and Actions | Image |
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| Paul Cadroy See also fr:Paul Cadroy |
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| Jean-Baptiste Carrier | 1756 – 16 December 1794; slaughtered thousands as a representative; guillotined |
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| Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac | 0 January 1763 – 24 March 1829 |
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| Guillaume Chaudron-Rousseau See also fr:Guillaume Chaudron-Rousseau |
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| Charles Cochon de Lapparent | 24 January 1750 – 17 July 1825 | 
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Joseph-Marie Cusset See also fr:Joseph-Marie Cusset |
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| Georges Frédéric Dentzel See also fr:Georges Frédéric Dentzel |
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| Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé |
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| fr:Antoine Dubois de Bellegarde |
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| fr:Louis Dubois du Bais |
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| André Dumont See also André Dumont |
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| Ernest Dominique François Joseph Duquesnoy | 17 May 1749, Bouvigny-Boyeffles - 17 June 1795, Paris Suicide, although condemned to guillotine. |
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| Jean-François Escudier See also fr:Jean-François Escudier |
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| François Joachim Esnue-Lavallée See also fr:François Joachim Esnue-Lavallée |
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| Claude Dominique Côme Fabre See also fr:Claude Dominique Côme Fabre |
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| Gilbert-Amable Faure |
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| fr:Joseph-Pierre-Marie Fayau |
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| Joseph Fouché also called 1st Duke of Otranto |
21 May 1759 at Le Pellerin, near Nantes, France – 25 December 1820 at Trieste |
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| fr:André Foussedoire | ||
| fr:Marie Pierre Adrien Francastel | ||
| fr:René François-Primaudière | ||
| Louis Marie Stanislas Fréron | 17 August 1754 – 15 July 1802 | .JPG) |
Alphabetical list of names G–L
Alphabetical list of names M–Z
Notes, citations, and sources
Notes
Citations
- (in French) R. Dupuy, Nouvelle histoire de la France contemporaine. La République jacobine, 2005, p.156
- Adolphe Robert et Gaston Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889, t. I, Paris (1889), pp. 32–33.