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Francois Louis Bourdon

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BOURDON, FRANCOIS LOUIS (d. 1797), known as BOURDON DE L'OIsE, French revolutionist, was procureur at the parlement of Paris. Representing the department of the Oise in the Convention, he voted for the immediate death of the king. He accused the Girondists of relations with the court, then turned against Robespierre, who had him expelled from the Jacobin club for his conduct as commissioner of the Convention with the army of La Rochelle. On the 9th Thermidor he was one of the deputies delegated to aid Barras to repress the insur rection made by the commune of Paris in favour of Robespierre. Bourdon then became a violent reactionary, attacking the former members of the Mountain and supporting rigorous measures against the rioters of the 12th Germinal and the 1st Prairial of the year III. In the council of Five Hundred, Bourdon belonged to the party of "Clichyens," composed of disguised royalists, against whom the directors made the coup d'etat of the 18th Fructidor. Bourdon was deported to French Guiana, where he soon died.

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