Six commission
The Commission of the Six (French: Commission des six près le tribunal criminel extraordinaire ), was an ephemeral body of the National Convention at the time of the French Revolution . The commission existed from March 11th to April 2nd, 1793 to control the Revolutionary Tribunal .
competence
The revolutionary assemblies had formed numerous so-called six commissions, a kind of transversal working group that had several standing committees in common to agree points of view or to administer certain questions. The uniform size of these commissions meant that no position was directly in the majority. The "Six" commission at issue here, made up of Garat , La Révellière-Lépeaux , Rabaut-Saint-Etienne , Delaunay , Gomaire and Bréard , had the power to examine the public prosecution beforehand.
course
In the days following the vote on the Law Establishing a Revolutionary Tribunal , the Girondins, especially their supporters in the provinces, protested and called for the blood court to be abolished. The Gironde MPs could not oppose the establishment of this tribunal and voted to set up a six-member commission, the only body empowered to oversee the new tribunal.
All its members were sympathizers of the Gironde, with the exception of Prieur , who after a few days replaced Breard, who, like himself, belonged to the Mountain Party .
On April 2, 1793, members of the court criticized the commission while they were taking an oath at the head of the convention, rendering them inactive. Marat used this intervention to propose the final abolition of this commission, over which the mountain has no control, which was immediately followed.
All powers of the commission were then transferred to the public prosecutor Fouquier-Tinville .
Individual evidence
- ^ Maria Betlem Castellà i Pujols: Introduction. Que sait-on aujourd'hui des comités des assemblées parlementaires? La Révolution française, 2012, para. 25, Tableau 2, accessed February 12, 2020 (French)