CHALIER, MARIE JOSEPH , French revo lutionary, became a partner in a business firm at Lyons for which he travelled in the Levant, in Italy, Spain and Portugal. He became the orator and leader of the Jacobins of Lyons, and induced the other revolutionary clubs and the commune of the city to arrest a great number of Royalists in the night of Feb. 5, The mayor, supported by the national guard, opposed this project. Chalier demanded of the Convention the establish ment of a revolutionary tribunal and the levy of a revolutionary army at Lyons. The Convention refused, and the anti-revolu tionary party, encouraged by this refusal, took action. On May the sections rose; the Jacobins were dispossessed of the municipality and Chalier arrested. On July 15, in spite of the order of the Convention, he was brought before the criminal tribunal of the Rhone-et-Loire, condemned to death, and guillotined the next day.
See N. Wahl, "Etude sur Chalier," in Revue historique, t. xxxiv.; and Les Premieres Annees de la Revolution a Lyon