GOUJON, JEAN MARIE CLAUDE ALEXANDRE (1766-1795), French publicist and statesman, was born at Bourg on April 13, 1766. After a number of years at sea, he became procureur-general-syndic of the department of Seine-et-Oise (1792), and subsequently took his seat with the Mountain in the Convention. After the revolution of the 9th Thermidor (July 27, he denounced the Jacobin Club, and on the 1st Prairial (May 20, 1795) supported the demands of the populace who invaded the legislature. The failure of the insurrection brought about his arrest, and he committed suicide after his trial.
See J. Claretie, Les Derniers Montagnards, histoire de l'insurrection de Prairial an III. d'apres les documents (1867) ; Defense du repre sentant du peuple Goujon (Paris, no date). See also Maurice Tourneux (189o, vol. i., PP. 422-425)•