Gabriel Toussaint Scellier

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Gabriel Toussaint Scellier (* 1756 ; † May 7, 1795 in Paris ) was one of the four vice-presidents of the Revolutionary Tribunal at the time of the " Great Terror " ( Grande Terreur ) during the French Revolution .

During the Ancien Régimes he was a lawyer in Noyon ; In 1790 he became a judge at the Compiègne District Tribunal . With the law of the 22nd Prairial , the so-called "law of terror", which introduced the Grande Terreur , he was appointed one of the vice-presidents of the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris (June 10, 1794).

He took over on 9 Thermidor II, as of the day the President of the Revolutionary Tribunal over René-François Dumas was arrested, one of this led negotiations and condemned a group of defendants immediately on the historic "last carts" the reign of terror of the guillotine was driven. The following day Scellier had in his capacity as President of the Revolutionary Tribunal the identity of outlaws declared Robespierre (u. A. Of and with him arrested Dumas , who was still Scelliers day before the supervisors) to clarify. He asked Robespierre: “Are you Maximilien Robespierre, thirty-five years old, born in Arras , a former deputy to the National Convention ?” This mere identity check by the court was enough to convict Robespierre and many of his supporters (including Saint-Just , Couthon , Henriot , Fleuriot-Lescot ), which ended the reign of terror .

Scellier was indicted in the course of the reaction of the Thermidorians together with Fouquier-Tinville , the public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal, convicted for his work during the Terreur and guillotined on 18th Floréal III ( May 7, 1795 ).

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SURNAME Scellier, Gabriel Toussaint
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH 1756
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1795
Place of death Paris