BOISSY D'ANGLAS, FRANgOIS ANTOINE DE (1756-1826), French statesman, was born at Saint Jean la Chambre (Ardeche), Dec. 8, 1756, and died in Paris, Oct. 2o, 1826. He was elected in 1789 by the third estate of the senechaussee of Annonay as deputy to the states-general. During the Legislative Assembly he was procureur general syndic for the directory of the department of Ardeche. Elected to the Con vention in 1792 he sat in the centre, "le Marais," voting in the trial of Louis XVI. for his detention until deportation should be judged expedient for the state. During the Terror he supported Robespierre ; but he was gained over by the members of the Mountain hostile to Robespierre, and his support, along with that of some other leaders of the Marais, made possible the ninth Thermidor. He was then elected a member of the Committee of Public Safety. He presented the report supporting the decree of the 3rd Ventose of the year III. which established liberty of worship. In the critical days of Germinal and Prairial of the year III. he showed great courage. On the first Prairial he pre sided over the Convention and remained unmoved by the insults and menaces of the insurgents. When the head of the deputy, Jean Feraud, was presented to him on the end of a pike, he saluted it impassively. He was reporter of the committee which drew up the constitution of the year III., and his report shows keen appre hension of a return of the Reign of Terror. His proposal (Aug. to lessen the severity of the revolutionary laws, and the eulogies he received from several Paris sections suspected of disloyalty to the republic, resulted in his being obliged to justify himself (Oct. 15, 1795). As a member of the Council of the Five Hundred he became more and more suspected of royalism. He was proscribed on the i8th Fructidor, and lived in England until the Consulate. In 18o1 he was made a member of the Tribunate, and in 18o5 a senator. In 1814 he voted for Napoleon's abdica tion, which won for him a seat in the chamber of peers; but during the Hundred Days he served Napoleon, and in consequence on the second Restoration, was for a short while excluded. In the chamber he still sought to obtain liberty for the press—a theme upon which he published a volume of his speeches (Paris, 1817). He was a member of the institute from its foundation, and in 1816, at the reorganization, became a member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. He published in 1819-21 a two-volume Essai sur la vie et les opinions de Al. de Maleslierbes.