CAMUS, ARMAND GASTON (174o-18o4), French revo lutionist, was born in Paris. In 1789 he was elected by the third estate of Paris to the States General, and attracted attention by his speeches against social inequalities. Camus was a Jansenist, and a member of the ecclesiastical committee which presented the Civil Constitution of the Clergy to the Assembly in May 179o. Elected to the National Convention by the department of Haute Loire, he was named member of the committee of general safety, and then sent as one of the commissioners charged with the sur veillance of General C. F. Dumouriez. Delivered with his col leagues to the Austrians on April 3, 1793, he was exchanged for the daughter of Louis XVI. in Nov. 1795. He played an incon spicuous role in the Council of the Five Hundred. On Aug. 14, 1789, the Constituent Assembly made Camus its archivist, and in that capacity he organized the national archives, classified the papers of the different assemblies of the Revolution and drew up analytical tables of the proces verbaux. He was restored to the office in 1796. He remained an austere republican, refusing to take part in the Napoleonic regime. His principal work is Code judiciaire, ou Recueil des decrets de l'Assemblee rationale et con stituante sur l'ordre judiciaire 0792).