Joseph Le Bon

September 29, 1765 (age 29)

Arras, France

Joseph Le Bon became a priest in the order of the Oratory, and professor of rhetoric at Beaune. He adopted revolutionary ideas, and became a cure of the Constitutional Church in the department of Pas-de-Calais, where he was later elected as a depute suppleant to the Convention. He became maire of Arras and administrateur of Pas-de-Calais, and on the 2nd of July 1793 took his seat in the Convention. He was sent as a representative on missions into. the departments of the Somme and Pas-de-Calais, where he showed great severity in dealing with offences against revolutionaries (8th Brumaire, year II to 22nd Messidor, year II. ; i. e. 29th October 1793 to 10th July 1794). In consequence, during the reaction which followed the gth Thermidor (27th July 1794) he was arrested on the 22nd Messidor, year III (10th July 1795). He was tried before the criminal tribunal of the Somme, condemned to death for abuse of his power during his mission, and executed at Amiens on the 24th Vendemiaire in the year IV (10th October 1795).