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Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé

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It came to be known--every one talked of it and after every one had talked about it, the Notables, drawn from the upper classes and practically a ministerial assembly, separated on May 25 without having done or decided anything. During their deliberations Calonne was replaced by Loménie de Brienne,
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as royalists attempted to overthrow the National Convention. Dubois-Crancé, being a member of the convention, took to the task of trying to resolve the dispute diplomatically with the royalists, but the royalists refused his entreaties and the revolt was brutally crushed.
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in which all citizens should be admitted. In his report, submitted on 12 December 1789, he plumped for a true national army in a speech that called for every citizen to be a soldier and every soldier a citizen. He was the first to promote the idea of
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It was also during this period that Dubois-Crancé was named a member of the Committee of Public Safety, already much reduced in importance. After the Convention, under the
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Conscription in the Napoleonic Era: A Revolution in Military Affairs? edited by Donald Stoker, Frederick C. Schneid, Harold D. Blanton, p. 8
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reaction which followed, and was one of the Committee of Five which had to oppose the Royalist insurrection known as
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Procès-verbal de l'assemblée provinciale de Champagne, tenue à Châlons dans les mois de novembre & décembre 1787
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at the instance of his rival Robespierre on 11 July 1794. Consequently, he was approached to take part in the
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practiced; however, the document was not adopted. He succeeded in securing the Assembly's vote that any
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In August 1793, Dubois-Crancé was designated representative on mission to the army of the
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Although he was a member of the two committees of general defence which preceded the
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that toppled Robespierre at the end of the month. However, he would not join the
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A History of the French Revolution, Band 1 by Henry Morse Stephens, pp. 383-386
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Edmond-Louis-Alexis Dubois de Crancé, dit Dubois-Crancé
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Clash with Robespierre, the Directory, and 18 Brumaire
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French musketeer, general and revolutionary politician
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Dubois-Crancé

President of the National Convention
Jean-Jacques Bréard
Armand Gensonné
The Mountain
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musketeer
minister of war
Charleville
Ardennes
musketeer
lieutenant
Marchaux
Ancien Régime
Liberalism
French Revolution
States-General
Third Estate
Vitry-le-François
National Assembly
Jacques-Louis David
Oath of the Tennis Court
Constituent Assembly
aristocratic origin
mercenaries
National Guards
conscription
recruiting system
African slave

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