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Paul Barras

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Barras, Paul 

Born June 30, 1755, in Fox-Amphoux; died Jan. 29, 1829, in Chaillot. A figure of the Great French Revolution. A nobleman.

Barras was elected to the Convention in September 1792 and voted for the death sentence for King Louis XVI. He joined the Jacobins. As a commissar of the Convention, he participated in the suppression of the royalist rebellion in Toulon (1793). An unprincipled politician and a careerist who was constantly striving for personal enrichment, Barras was one of the organizers of the counterrevolutionary Ther-midorian coup d’etat (July 27–28, 1794). During the rule of the Directory, he was a member of all its convocations. Barras helped to promote Napoleon Bonaparte. Nevertheless, after the coup d’etat of the 18th of Brumaire (Nov. 9–10, 1799) he was barred from political life.

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Mémoires . . . , vols. 1–4. Paris, 1895–96.
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Trader Paul Barras says Alnwick District Council cost him pounds 18,000 in lost earnings after they slashed his opening hours in February to a 1am close ( before most of his customers arrive at the town centre van.
Burger van boss grills the burghers by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Trader Paul Barras says Alnwick District Council cost him pounds 18,000 in lost earnings, after they slashed his opening hours in February to a 1am close - well before most of his customers arrived.
2 DAY IN MINUTES: regional news by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Richard Smith, 32, Paul Leyden, 33, and Paul Barras, 31, were all banned from matches for two years for their part in the infamous "Battle of Breda" after Newcastle's UEFA cup match there in October 2003.
Trio banned for football violence by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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