BARBAROUX, CHARLES JEAN MARIE French revolutionist, was educated by the Oratorians of Marseille and became a successful lawyer. He was appointed secretary (gref}ier) to the commune of Marseille, and in 1792 was com missioned to go to the legislative assembly and demand the accu sation of the directory of the department of Bouches-du-Rhone, as accomplice in a royalist movement in Arles. At Paris he was received in the Jacobin club and entered into relations with J. P. Brissot and the Rolands. It was at his instigation that Marseille sent to Paris the battalion of volunteers which contributed to the insurrection of Aug. Io 1792, against the king. Returning to Marseille he was elected deputy to the Convention by 775 votes out of 776 voting. From the first he posed as an opponent of the Mountain, accused Robespierre of aiming at the dictatorship (Sept. 25 1792), and proposed to break up the commune of Paris. Then he got the act of accusation against Louis XVI. adopted, and in the trial voted for his death "without appeal and without delay." During the final struggle between the Girondists and the Moun tain, he refused to resign as deputy and rejected the offer made by the sections of Paris to give hostages for the arrested representa tives. He succeeded in escaping, first to Caen, where he organized the civil war, then to Saint-Emilion, near Bordeaux. Discovered, he attempted to shoot himself, but was only wounded, and was taken to Bordeaux, where he was guillotined when his identity was established.