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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.

WORKS

Mémoires . . . , vols. 1–4. Paris, 1895–96.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Shane John Paul Barras, 19, from Saint Johns Road, in Elswick, Newcastle, was charged with affray and two counts of criminal damage.
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.
The Directors were Paul Barras, a former lover of Josephine Bonaparte and a byword for cynicism and corruption; the Abbe Sieyes, an industrious political theorist; a general named Moulin; Roger Ducos, a protege of Barras; arid a lawyer called Gohier.
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Paul Barras, workshop foreman, was set the task of losing as much weight as possible.
STEAMING: Paul Barras is waiting for Alnwick District Council to pay up.
Runners-up to get free match tickets were Tony Allen, of North Shields; Theresa Waldock, of Hebburn; Norman Davidson, of Newcastle; M McGowan, of Gateshead; Alan Wheatley; Mr Wilson, of Cramlington; Thomas Mason, of Gateshead; Agnes McBride, of Jarrow; Jackie Goodacre, of Washington; Mr E Harris, Consett; Bran Forrest, of Throckley; James Garrett, Walker; Peter Bailes, of Gosforth; John Crackett, of Blyth; Paul Barras, Gateshead.
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.
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The battle between trader Paul Barras, who runs the Sharkies Bites mobile takeaway, and Alnwick District Council had been raging since the authority cut his hours back in February.
Paul Barras, 32, Lanercost Drive, Fenham; Darren Brindley, 34, Bolingbroke Street, Newcastle; Thomas Coates, 48, Hawthorn Place, Killingworth; Carlo Farley, 33, Newton Road, High Heaton, Newcastle; Mark Ginelly, 32, Tosson Terrace, Heaton, Newcastle;
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