GUADET, MARGUERITE ELIE French Revolutionist, was born at St. Emilion near Bordeaux on July 20, 1758, and became a lawyer. He was elected to the Legis lative Assembly, and was largely instrumental in forcing the king to accept the Girondist ministry of March 15, 1792. As president of the Assembly, he vigorously opposed the insurrectionary Co1n mune of Paris on Aug. Io. As deputy to the Convention (Sept.) he voted for an appeal to the people at the trial of Louis XVI., and for the death sentence, but with a respite pending appeal. In March 1793 during the war in La Vendee he refused to co-operate with Danton, whom he held responsible for the September mas sacres. He was involved in the fall of the Girondists, and guillo tined on June See J. Guadet, Les Girondins (0889) ; and F. A. Aulard, Les Orateurs de la legislative et de la convention (end ed., igo6).