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Vergniaud was born in the city of Limoges in the province of Limousin, to the elder Pierre Vergniaud and his wife Catherine Baubiat.
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The Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, remarked that: Of the Girondists, Vergniaud was the better orator, but Brissot was quick, eager, impetuous, and a man of wide knowledge.
Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud ( May 31, 1753 – October 31, 1793 ) was a lawyer and statesman, and a significant figure of the French Revolution.
A deputy to the Assembly from Bordeaux, Vergniaud was a notably eloquent and impressive orator.
Young Vergniaud was first tutored at home by a Jesuit scholar, Abbé Roby, a master of ancient languages: it is likely that Vergniaud's lifelong love of the classics was inspired by him.
The future French statesman Turgot was at that time the intendant of the province, and knew the elder Vergniaud well.
Through Turgot's patronage, Vergniaud was admitted to the Collège du Plessis at Paris.
He was particularly favored by the Countess de Maleyssie, who let the frequently destitute Vergniaud live freely in her estate, and Charles Dupaty, President of the parlement of Bordeaux, who urged the incandescent young man to study law.
With his help, and the powerful guidance of Dupaty, Vergniaud was accepted by the bar and went straight into practice in April 1782.
This sordid, sensational affair held the city in thrall and Vergniaud handled it with tremendous skill: the young woman was proven innocent of all the charges and her false accuser was imprisoned instead.
With this shockingly complete victory, Vergniaud was widely recognized as a rising star.
Vergniaud had already been greatly moved by revolutionary rhetoric, and was an enthusiastic supporter of the reforms which had caused the initial celebrations at Allassac.
On 29 May Vergniaud went so far as to support the disbanding of the king's guard ; yet he appears to have been unaware of the extent of the feelings of animosity which he had aroused in the people, probably because he was wholly unconnected with the practices of the party of the Mountain as the instigators of the violence.
An extraordinary commission was appointed: Vergniaud wrote and read its recommendations that a National Convention be formed, the king be provisionally suspended from office, a governor appointed for his son, and the royal family be consigned to the Palais Luxembourg.
When the institution of a revolutionary tribunal was proposed, Vergniaud opposed the project, denouncing the tribunal as a more awful inquisition than that of Spain, and avowing that his party would all die rather than consent to it.
Vergniaud was executed last and buried in the Madeleine Cemetery.
Vergniaud and Limoges
* Gay de Vernon, Vergniaud ( Limoges, 1858 )
Vergniaud and elder
They were Antiboul, Boilleau the younger, Boyer-Fonfrêde, Brissot, Carra, Duchastel, the younger Ducos, Dufriche de Valazé, Duprat, Fauchet, Gardien, Gensonné, Lacaze, Lasource, Lauze-Deperret, Lehardi, Lesterpt-Beauvais, the elder Minvielle, Sillery, Vergniaud and Viger, of whom five were deputies from the Gironde.
Vergniaud and Pierre
** Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1744 )
These were five lawyers: Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Marguerite Élie Guadet, Armand Gensonné, Jean Antoine Laffargue de Grangeneuve and Jean Jay ( also a Protestant pastor ), and one tradesman Jean François Ducos.
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His proposal for the Tribunal had passed with support from Georges Danton, despite the opposition of Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud.
The Girondins could claim the most brilliant orators: Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Marguerite-Élie Guadet, Armand Gensonné, and Maximin Isnard ( the last being from Provence ).
Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, in a speech to the Assembly, directed toward the king the following rhetorical questions: " Did the constitution leave you the choice of ministers for our happiness or our ruin?
A portion of the Assembly, aroused by the tocsin, had gone into emergency session under the presidentship of Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud.
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Nevertheless, he remained a Royalist, and, with Armand Gensonné and Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, even addressed a letter to the king soliciting a private interview.
* Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution ( 1950 )
* Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud and 12 other Girondist deputies,
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Vergniaud and .
Some submitted, among them Gensonné, Guadet, Vergniaud, Pétion, Birotteau and Boyer-Fonfrède.
After his studies were complete, Vergniaud went unsure of his direction in life.
In this pursuit, however, Vergniaud excelled magnificently.
Vergniaud had delivered one of the great speeches of his life, and now the provincial lawyer would be coaxed from all quarters to join the revolution at the national level.
In 1789 Vergniaud had been elected a member of the general council of the département of the Gironde.
Between the outbreak of the Revolution and his election to the Legislative Assembly the political views of Vergniaud had undergone a decided change.
On 19 March 1792, when the perpetrators of the massacre of Avignon had been introduced to the Assembly by Collot d ' Herbois, Vergniaud spoke indulgently of their crimes and lent the authority of his voice to their amnesty.
By June the opposition of Vergniaud ( whose voice still commanded the country ) to the king rose to fever pitch.
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