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. R. Dupuy, Nouvelle histoire de la France contemporaine. La République jacobine, 2005, p.156 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
Name Dates and ActionsImageAntoine Louis AlbitteDieppe, 30 December 1761 23 or 25 December 1812, Lithuaniadied during retreat from Russia of fatigue and hunger.Adolphe Robert et Gaston Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889, t. I, Paris (1889), pp. 32–33.:fr:Pierre-Jean Baptiste AiuguisPaul Barras30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829 Jean Bassal3 May 1802Pierre-Louis Bentabole4 June 1756–22 April 1798André Antoine Bernard19 October 1818, Funchal, Madeira (Spain). Also called Bernard de Saintes, Bernard de Xantes, André Antoine Bernard de Jeuzines, and Pioche-fer Bernard:fr:Claud Blad:fr:Jean-Baptiste BôPierre Bourbotte5 June 1763, Vault-de-Lugny – 17 June 1795, Paris. Guillotined.Leonard Bourdon6 November 1754, Alençon – 29 May 1807, Breslau:fr:Henri Gaspard Charles BouretJean François Boursault-MalherbeJacques Brival1751–1820
Alphabetical list of names C–F Name Dates and ActionsImagePaul Cadroy See also :fr:Paul CadroyJean-Baptiste Carrier1756 – 16 December 1794; slaughtered thousands as a representative; guillotinedJean-Baptiste Cavaignac0 January 1763 – 24 March 1829 Guillaume Chaudron-Rousseau See also :fr:Guillaume Chaudron-Rousseau Charles Cochon de Lapparent 24 January 1750 – 17 July 1825Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois19 June 1749 – 8 June 1796; Georges Couthon(22 December 1755 – 28 July 1794 Joseph-Marie Cusset See also :fr:Joseph-Marie Cusset Georges Frédéric Dentzel See also :fr:Georges Frédéric Dentzel Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé :fr:Antoine Dubois de Bellegarde :fr:Louis Dubois du Bais André Dumont See also André Dumont Ernest Dominique François Joseph Duquesnoy17 May 1749, Bouvigny-Boyeffles - 17 June 1795, ParisSuicide, although condemned to guillotine. Jean-François Escudier See also :fr:Jean-François Escudier François Joachim Esnue-Lavallée See also :fr:François Joachim Esnue-Lavallée Claude Dominique Côme Fabre See also :fr:Claude Dominique Côme Fabre Gilbert-Amable Faure :fr:Joseph-Pierre-Marie Fayau Joseph Fouchéalso called 1st Duke of Otranto21 May 1759 at Le Pellerin, near Nantes, France – 25 December 1820 at Trieste :fr:André Foussedoire :fr:Marie Pierre Adrien Francastel :fr:René François-Primaudière Louis Marie Stanislas Fréron17 August 1754 – 15 July 1802
Alphabetical list of names G–L Name Dates and ActionsImage:fr:Jacques Garnier de Saintes1817 or 1818 in Ohio (US) Thomas-Augustin de Gasparin7 November 1793, general of brigade :fr:Raymond Gaston8 September 1836, Paris, :fr:Joseph-Marie Gaudin21 August 1818 :fr:Antoine-François Gauthier des Orcières1838Pierre-Mathurin Gillet 4 November 1795:fr:Jean-Baptiste Girot-Pouzol Jean-Marie Claude Alexandre Goujon 17 June 1795, suicide before execution:fr:Jean François Marie Goupilleau de Fontenay 11 October 1823, Montaigu, Vendéecousin, below:fr:Philippe Charles Aimé Goupilleau de Montaigu1 July 1823, Montaigu, Vendée :fr:Jacques Tanguy Marie Guermeur15 September 1798 Quimper (Brittany) :fr:Mathieu Guezno :fr:Jean Guimberteau :fr:Louis Guyardin Nicolas Hentz5 June 1753, Metz after 1829 possibly near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania:fr:Charles-Antoine Hourier-Eloy :fr:Marc-Antoine Huguet :fr:Claude Javogues Jeanbon Saint-André :fr:Julien-Urbain-François-Marie-Riel Lefebvre de La Chauvière :fr:Antoine-Joseph Lanot15 February 1839, Paris :fr:Jacques Léonard Laplanche François Sébastien Christophe Laporte Joseph Le Bon29 September 1765 – 10 October 1795Condemned to death for abuse of his power as a representative on mission. :fr:Joseph-François Le Malliaud de Kerharnos6 January 1830 at Vannes Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas28 July 1794, Paris. Committed suicide (pistol) prior to arrests on 9 Thermidor :fr:Jean-Alban Lefiot :fr:Sylvain-Phalier Lejeune7 February 1827 at Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
Alphabetical list of names M–Z Name Dates and ActionsImageÉtienne Christophe Maignet22 October 1834 :fr:Nicolas Maure :fr:Jean Nicolas Méaulle :fr:Henri Menuau Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai26 December 1838 :fr:Jean-Marie François Merlino :fr:Jean-Baptiste Michaud Jean-Baptiste Milhaud8 January 1833 :fr:Jean-Baptiste-Benoît Monestier :fr:Pierre-Laurent Monestier :fr:Joseph-Mathurin Musset :fr:Jean-Baptiste Perrin des Vosges :fr:Jean-Pascal Charles de Peyssard :fr:Jean-Adam Pflieger, l'aîné Pierre Philippeaux :fr:André Pomme :fr:François-Martin Poultier Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois Pierre-Louis Prieur Joseph-Étienne Richard Augustin Robespierre :fr:Pierre Roux-Fazillac Louis Félix Roux Stanislas Joseph François Xavier Rovère :fr:Alexandre-Jean Ruault :fr:Albert Ruelle Louis Antoine de Saint-Just :fr:Jean-Baptiste Michel Saladin Claude François Bruno Siblot :fr:Michel-Louis Talot :fr:Didier Thirion :fr:Jean-Nicolas Topsent Jean-Baptiste Treilhard :fr:Narcisse Trullard :fr:Étienne Vidalin :fr:François-Toussaint Villers Jean-Henri Voulland
Notes, citations, and sources
Notes
Citations