BARERE DE VIEUZAC, BERTRAND French revolutionary, was born at Tarbes, in Gascony, Sept. 10 1;55, and practised as an advocate before the parlement of Toulouse until he was sent by the estates of Bigorre to the states general in May 178q. In the states-general he attached himself to the Constitutional Party. At this time he was less known as a speaker than as the author of the reports in a paper which he published, the Point du Jour. After the king's flight to Varennes Barere joined the Republican Party, though he kept in touch with the duke of Orleans, to whose natural daughter, Pamela, he was tutor. He was a judge in the new court of cassation from Oct. 1791 to Sept. 1792, and in the National Convention was deputy for Hautes Pyrenees. In the convention he at first voted with the Girondists, and attacked Robespierre, "a pygmy who should not be put on a pedestal" ; but at the king's trial he voted with the Mountain for death "without appeal and without delay," closing his speech with a phrase which ran through Paris : "The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of kings." Barere was chosen a member of the Committee of Public Safety (April 7 He joined the Robespierre Party, played an important part in the great Committee of Public Safety established on July 7, and voted for the death of the Girondists. Barere seems to have been animated throughout the Revolution by considerations of expediency. On the 9th Thermi dor (July 27 1794) Barere hesitated; then he drew up the report outlawing Robespierre. Nevertheless, in Germinal of the year III. (March 21—April 4, 1795), the Thermidorians decreed the accusation of Barere and his colleagues of the Terror, Collot d'Herbois and Billaud-Varenne, and he was sent to the Isle of Oleron. He was removed to Saintes, and thence escaped to Bordeaux, where he lived in concealment for several years. Barere was a secret agent under Napoleon I., exiled as a regicide at the Restoration, and a pensioner under Louis Philippe. He died, the last survivor of the Committee of Public Safety, on Jan. 13, 1841 (see also FRENCH REVOLUTION).