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Pétion was one of those who escaped to Caen and raised the standard of provincial insurrection against the Convention ; and, when the Norman rising failed, he fled with Marguerite-Élie Guadet, François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux, Jean-Baptiste de la Salle and Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai to the Gironde, where they were sheltered by a wigmaker of Saint Emilion.
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Pétion and was
It was first published in Paris by Pétion in 18 volumes ( 1844-5 ).
Alexandre Pétion was elected president in the South.
Alexandre Pétion, a competing leader who was a " gens de couleur ," was said to be behind it.
As a mixed-race man, Pétion was suspect by the mostly African and black majority of residents.
Pétion became President of the " Republic of Haïti " in the south, where he was backed by General Jean Pierre Boyer, a gens du couleur who controlled the southern armies.
The latter was the policy of President Pétion in the South.
Associated with these views was a group of deputies from elsewhere, of whom the most notable were the Marquis de Condorcet, Claude Fauchet, Marc David Lasource, Maximin Isnard, the Comte de Kersaint, Henri Larivière, and, above all, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Jean Marie Roland and Jérôme Pétion, elected mayor of Paris in succession to Jean Sylvain Bailly on 16 November 1791.
Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve ( 3 January 1756, Chartres, France – 1794, near Saint-Émilion ) was a French writer and politician.
Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve was the son of a at Chartres.
Pétion received a still further proof of the affection of the Parisians for himself on 16 November 1791, when he was elected second mayor of Paris in succession to Bailly.
Pétion was elected to the Convention for Eure-et-Loir and became its first president.
LP Manuel had the folly to propose that the president of the Assembly should have the same authority as the president of the United States ; his proposition was at once rejected, but Pétion got the nickname of " Roi Pétion ," which contributed to his fall.
At last, a month before Robespierre's fall in June 1794, the escaped deputies felt themselves no longer safe, and deserted their asylum ; Louvet found his way to Paris, Salle and Guadet to Bordeaux, where they were soon taken ; Barbaroux was guillotined after a botched suicide attempt ; and the bodies of Pétion and Buzot, who had killed themselves, were found in a field, half eaten by wolves.
He was succeeded in command by General Rochambeau, whose brutal racial warfare drew more leaders back to the rebel armies, including black and mulatto army officers Jean Jacques Dessalines, Alexandre Pétion and Henri Christophe.
Alexandre Sabès Pétion ( April 2, 1770 – March 29, 1818 ) was President of the Republic of Haiti from 1806 until his death.
Pétion was born in Port-au-Prince to a Haitian mother and a wealthy French white father.
Like other gens de couleur libres ( free people of color ) with wealthy fathers, Pétion was sent to France in 1788 to be educated and study at the Military Academy in Paris.
By November the rebels were pushed back to the strategic southern port of Jacmel ; the defence was commanded by Pétion.
Christophe was elected president, but he did not believe the position had sufficient power, as Pétion kept powers for himself.
Pétion was elected President in 1806 of the southern Republic of Haiti.
On 8 July 1792, he was the spokesman of a deputation of the section of the Place Royale which demanded from the Legislative Assembly the reinstatement of the Mayor, Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, and the Procureur, Louis Pierre Manuel.
In 1810 he was appointed to the Horse Guards under President Pétion.
Pétion and those
His concessions to the Parisian mob and his extreme gentleness towards those who demanded the prosecution of the ministers of Charles X led to an unflattering comparison with Jérôme Pétion under similar circumstances.
Pétion and who
After it became clear the French were going to try to reimpose slavery and restrictions on free gens de couleur, Boyer joined the patriots under Pétion and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led the colony to independence.
This followed a secret conference at Arcahaie, where Pétion supported Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the general who had captured Jacmel.
Following the assassination of Dessalines on October 17, 1806, Pétion championed the ideals of democracy and clashed with Henri Christophe who wanted absolute rule.
Also aligned with the Girondins were Condorcet, secretary of the Assembly and Pétion, barred from the Legislative Assembly because he had been in the Constitutional Assembly, but who soon became mayor of Paris.
There was debate, however, over who should be in charge, but his ability to win over Pétion and a Curaçaoan sea merchant, Luis Brión ( he is traditionally referred to by the Spanish form of his name ), who had just acquired a much-needed warship in England to aid the embattled Cartagenan Republic, forced the other Venezuelan leaders to grudgingly accept his leadership.
With the support of the Haitian president Alexandre Pétion and with the naval aid of Luis Brión, another émigré, who was a merchant from Curaçao, Bolívar returned to Margarita Island, a secure republican redoubt, but his command of the republican forces was still not firm.
Pétion was at the Tuileries, where he had been summoned by the king, who wished to ascertain from him the state of Paris, and obtain an authorization to repel force by force.
The numerous French soldiers were accompanied by mulatto troops led by Alexandre Pétion and André Rigaud, mulatto leaders who had been defeated by Toussaint three years earlier.
Pétion and escaped
When other mulatto leaders surrendered to Toussaint Louverture in southern Saint-Domingue, Boyer escaped to France with Rigaud and Alexandre Pétion.
Others, including Brissot, Louvet, Buzot, Lasource, Grangeneuve, Larivière and Bergoing, escaped from Paris and, joined later by Guadet, Pétion and Birotteau, set to work to organise a movement of the provinces against the capital.
Pétion and insurrection
The night before the assault on the Tuileries on 10 August 1792, an insurrection planned by the Jacobins overthrew the current Paris Commune headed by Pétion and proclaimed a new revolutionary Commune headed by transitional authorities.
On 26 July, an insurrection was to break out ; but it was badly contrived, and Pétion prevented it.
Pétion and against
In November, Lafayette ran against Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve in the mayoral election to succeed Bailly, but lost by a large margin.
But when it became apparent that the French intended to re-establish slavery, because they had done so on Guadeloupe, Dessalines and Pétion switched sides again, in October 1802, and fought against the French.
Dessalines and Pétion remained allied with France until they switched sides again, in October 1802, and fought against the French.
In 1806, Alexandre Pétion launched a coup against Haiti's emperor, Jean-Jacques Dessalines though General Christophe was aware of this through his system of spies he did not warn Dessaline viewing his assassination as a necessary evil that would permit him to achieve his goals.
Pétion and ;
* 1791 – The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved ; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as " incorruptible patriots ".
Pétion named the general Boyer as his successor ; he took control in 1818 following the death of Pétion from yellow fever.
The first mayor was Jean Sylvain Bailly ; he was succeeded on November 1791 by Pétion de Villeneuve after Bailly's unpopular use of the National Guard to disperse a riotous assembly in the Champ de Mars ( 17 July 1791 ).
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