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Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois was a Parisian by birth and an actor by profession.
After figuring for some years at the principal provincial theatres of France and Holland, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois became director of the playhouse at Geneva. He had from the first a share in the revolutionary tumult; but it was not until 1791 that he became a figure of importance.
Then, however, by the publication of L'Almanack du Fere Gerardf a little book setting forth, in homely style, the advantages of a constitutional monarchy, he suddenly acquired great popularity.
His renown was soon increased by his active interference on behalf of the Swiss of the Chateau-Vieux Regiment, condemned to the galleys for mutiny at Nancy.
His efforts resulted in their liberation; he went himself to Brest in search of them; and a civic feast was decreed on his behalf and theirs, which gave occasion for one of the few poems published during his life by Andre Chenier.
But his opinions became more and more radical.
He was a member of the Commune of Paris on the 10th of August 1792, and was elected deputy for Paris to the Convention, where he was the first to demand the abolition of royalty (on the 216t of September 1792), and he voted the death of Louis XVI " sans sursis. "
There he introduced the Terror in its most terrible form. In May 1794 an attempt was made to assassinate Collot; but it only increased his popularity, and this won him the hatred of Robespierre, against whom he took sides on the 9th Thermidor, when he presided over the Convention during a part of the session.
Denounced a second time, he defended himself by pleading that he had acted for the cause of the Revolution, but was condemned with Barere and Billaud-Varenne to transportation to Cayenne (March 1795), where he died early in 1796.
Collot d'Herbois wrote and adapted from the English and Spanish many plays, one of which, Le Paysan magistral, kept the stage for several years.
L'Almanack du P'ere Gerard was reprinted under the title of Etrennes aux amis de la Constitution franqaise, ou entretiens du Pere G&rard avec ses concitoyens (Paris, 1792).
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