Background
Leclerc was the son of a civil engineer, and as a young man went to Martinique from which he was expelled for revolutionary propaganda in 1791.
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Jean Leclerc
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After Jean-Paul Marat was assassinated, Leclerc assumed his mantle. On April first that year he made a speech before the Jacobin Club calling for the execution of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Leclerc returned to his military duties with the Army of the Rhine, and was sent on an unsuccessful spy mission across the Rhine in southwest Germany.
lieutenant seems that he betrayed by Dietrich, the mayor of Strasbourg.
In November 1792, he fought at the Battle of Jemappes. In February 1793 he was transferred to the General Staff of the newly restructured Army of the Alps, in Lyon.
lieutenant was there that he joined the Club Central and he was sent to Paris as a special deputy from Lyon. Leclerc took an extremely radical revolutionary position.
He was even expelled from the Jacobin Club for being too radical.
His publishing activities ceased with his arrest in April, 1794.
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He returned to metropolitan France and joined the 1st battalion of Morbihan in which he served until February 1792, when he left for Paris to defend seventeen grenadiers accused, in Martinique, of being revolutionaries. He successfully defended them in front of the Jacobin Club and the revolutionary national assembly.
Membership
He was a founding member of Les Enragés (literally "the Angry Ones") who opposed Jacobian leniency.
