Committee of General Security
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| + | The '''Committee of General Security''' was a French [[parliamentary committee]] which acted as police agency during the [[French Revolution]] that, along with the [[Committee of Public Safety]], oversaw the [[Reign of Terror]]. | ||
| - | :At one important level, <nowiki>[</nowiki>''[[Philosophy in the Boudoir]]''<nowiki>]</nowiki> reads as a savagely ironic denunciation of [[Robespierre]]'s "[[virtuous republic]]", founded on repression and the guillotine. [[Philosophy in the Boudoir]] was begun in 1794 during Sade's confinement in the [[Picpus sanitorium]], in a room from which he could see the [[guillotine in Paris|guillotine]] and its operations. (It had by now been moved from the [[Place de la Concorde]] because of complaints about the smell of blood). Its victims were even buried in the grounds of the [[sanatorium]], "1,800 in thirty-five days", and Sade's letters leave little doubt that the horror of this spectacle marked him profoundly. --''[[Sade: the libertine novels]]'' by [[John Phillips]] | + | The Committee supervised the local police committees in charge of investigating reports of [[treason]], and was one of the agencies with authority to refer suspects to the [[Revolutionary Tribunal]] with authority to execute by [[guillotine]]. |
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| + | By 1794 the Committee became part of the opposition to [[Robespierre]] and the Committee of Public Safety and elements were involved in the [[9 Thermidor]] [[coup d'etat]]. | ||
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| + | It was designed to protect the Revolutionary Republic from its internal enemies. | ||
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| + | ==Prominent members== | ||
| + | * [[Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier]] | ||
| + | * [[Jacques-Louis David]] | ||
| + | * [[Jean-Pierre-André Amar]] | ||
| + | * [[Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas]] | ||
| + | * [[Jean-Henri Voulland]] | ||
| - | Le 26 juillet (8 thermidor) il est condamné à mort par [[Fouquier-Tinville]] pour ''intelligences et correspondances avec les ennemis de la République'' avec vingt-huit autres accusés. Le lendemain ([[9 thermidor]]), l’huissier du Tribunal se transporte dans les diverses maisons d’arrêt de Paris pour les saisir au corps, mais cinq d’entre eux manquent à l’appel, dont Sade. Il est sauvé par la [[chute de Robespierre]] et quitte Picpus le 15 octobre. À quoi doit-il d’avoir échappé à la guillotine ? au désordre des dossiers et à l’encombrement des prisons comme le pense Lely, ou aux démarches et aux pots-de-vin de Constance Quesnet qui a des amis au [[Comité de sûreté générale]], comme le croient ses deux plus récents biographes Pauvert et Lever ? | ||
| - | « Ma détention nationale, la guillotine sous les yeux », écrivait Sade à son homme d’affaires provençal le 21 janvier 1795, « m’a fait cent fois plus de mal que ne m’en avaient fait toutes les bastilles imaginables. » | ||
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The Committee of General Security was a French parliamentary committee which acted as police agency during the French Revolution that, along with the Committee of Public Safety, oversaw the Reign of Terror.
The Committee supervised the local police committees in charge of investigating reports of treason, and was one of the agencies with authority to refer suspects to the Revolutionary Tribunal with authority to execute by guillotine.
By 1794 the Committee became part of the opposition to Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety and elements were involved in the 9 Thermidor coup d'etat.
It was designed to protect the Revolutionary Republic from its internal enemies.
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Prominent members
- Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier
- Jacques-Louis David
- Jean-Pierre-André Amar
- Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas
- Jean-Henri Voulland
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