- Armand-Gaston Camus
Armand-Gaston Camus (
April 2 ,1740 –November 2 ,1804 ), Frenchrevolutionist , was a successfuladvocate before theFrench Revolution . In 1789 he was elected by theThird Estate ofParis to the Estates-General, and attracted attention by his speeches against social inequalities.Elected to the
National Convention by the "département" ofHaute-Loire , he was named member of theCommittee of Public Safety , and then sent as one of the commissioners charged with the surveillance of General C. F. Dumouriez. Delivered with his colleagues to theAustria ns on the 3rd of April 1793, he was exchanged for the daughter of Louis XVI in November 1795. He played an inconspicuous role in theCouncil of Five Hundred .On the 14th of August 1789 the
Constituent Assembly made Camus itsarchivist , and in that capacity he organized thenational archives , classified the papers of the different assemblies of the Revolution and drew up analytical tables of the "proces-verbaux". He was restored to the office in 1796 and became absorbed in literary work. He remained an austere republican, refusing to take part in the Napoleonic régime.References
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