List of representatives on mission

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.

Représentant en mission, painting attributed to Jacques-Louis David

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.[1] Some of them abused their powers and exercised a veritable dictatorship at a local level.

Alphabetical list of names

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Alphabetical list of names A–B

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Name Dates and Actions Image
Antoine Louis Albitte Dieppe, 30 December 1761  – 23 or 25 December 1812, Lithuania
died during retreat from Russia of fatigue and hunger.[2]
fr:Pierre-Jean Baptiste Aiuguis
Paul Barras 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829  
Jean Bassal 3 May 1802
Pierre-Louis Bentabole 4 June 1756–22 April 1798  
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  
fr:Claud Blad
fr:Jean-Baptiste Bô
Pierre Bourbotte 5 June 1763, Vault-de-Lugny – 17 June 1795, Paris. Guillotined.  
Leonard Bourdon 6 November 1754, Alençon – 29 May 1807, Breslau  
fr:Henri Gaspard Charles Bouret
Jean François Boursault-Malherbe
Jacques Brival 1751–1820  

Alphabetical list of names C–F

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Name Dates and Actions Image
Paul Cadroy See also fr:Paul Cadroy  
Jean-Baptiste Carrier 1756 – 16 December 1794;
slaughtered thousands as a representative; guillotined
 
Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac 0 January 1763 – 24 March 1829  
Guillaume Chaudron-Rousseau See also fr:Guillaume Chaudron-Rousseau  
Charles Cochon de Lapparent 24 January 1750 – 17 July 1825  
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.
 
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.
 
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 Duquesnoy 17 May 1749, Bouvigny-Boyeffles - 17 June 1795, Paris
Suicide, 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 Fouché
also called 1st Duke of Otranto
21 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 Fréron 17 August 1754 – 15 July 1802
 

Alphabetical list of names G–L

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Name Dates and Actions Image
fr:Jacques Garnier de Saintes 1817 or 1818 in Ohio (US)
Thomas-Augustin de Gasparin 7 November 1793, general of brigade  
fr:Raymond Gaston 8 September 1836, Paris,
fr:Joseph-Marie Gaudin 21 August 1818
fr:Antoine-François Gauthier des Orcières 1838
Pierre-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, Vendée
cousin, below
fr:Philippe Charles Aimé Goupilleau de Montaigu 1 July 1823, Montaigu, Vendée
fr:Jacques Tanguy Marie Guermeur 15 September 1798 Quimper (Brittany)
fr:Mathieu Guezno
fr:Jean Guimberteau
fr:Louis Guyardin
Nicolas Hentz 5 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 Lanot 15 February 1839, Paris
fr:Jacques Léonard Laplanche
François Sébastien Christophe Laporte
Joseph Le Bon 29 September 1765 – 10 October 1795
Condemned to death for abuse of his power as a representative on mission.
 
fr:Joseph-François Le Malliaud de Kerharnos 6 January 1830 at Vannes
Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas 28 July 1794, Paris. Committed suicide (pistol) prior to arrests on 9 Thermidor  
fr:Jean-Alban Lefiot
fr:Sylvain-Phalier Lejeune 7 February 1827 at Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Alphabetical list of names M–Z

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Étienne Christophe Maignet 22 October 1834
fr:Nicolas Maure
fr:Jean Nicolas Méaulle
fr:Henri Menuau
Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai 26 December 1838
fr:Jean-Marie François Merlino
fr:Jean-Baptiste Michaud
Jean-Baptiste Milhaud 8 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

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Notes

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Citations

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  1. ^ (in French) R. Dupuy, Nouvelle histoire de la France contemporaine. La République jacobine, 2005, p.156
  2. ^ Adolphe Robert et Gaston Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889, t. I, Paris (1889), pp. 32–33.