BARERE DE VIEUZAC, ba'rar' de vye'zitle, BER FRANI) ( 1755-1841). A member of the French National Convention. He was born at Tarbes and practiced law at Toulouse. After acting as deputy in the States-Ceneral and editing a daily Ilevolutionary palter, Lc Point du Jour, he was sent in 1792 to the National Convention by the Department of Ilantes-Pyrenees. He is said to have been personally in favor of mod erate action, but lie was easily overawed by the influence of the party of the Mountain, and led away by his desire for leadership and love of applause. His eloquence was so poetical that he came to he known as 'the Anacreon of the guillotine.' He was reporter from the committee on war, where he sat with Danton, and presided o‘er the Convention when sentence was passed on Louis XVI., rejecting the King's appeal to the people, with the words, "The law is for death, and 1 am here only as the organ of the law." Ilis inborn mildness warring with the instinct of self preservation made him alternately a supporter of merciful measures and a bloodthirsty advocate of the guillotine; but his entire public career in dicates a man of essential cowardice, far more selfish than patriotic. After the fall of Robes
pierre, whom he helped to overthrow, Barere proposed the continuation of the Revolutionary Tribunal, but was denounced, impeached, and sentenced to transportation. He was saved, however, by the general amnesty after the 18th Brumaire. Elected as deputy during the Hundred Days, he was banished after the second Restoration, and devoted himself to liter ary work at Brussels, till the Revolution of July permitted his return. In 1832 he was once more elected as a deputy from the Hautes-Pyrenees. His election, however, was annulled on account of errors in form, whereupon the Government gave him an official position in his Department, which he held till 1340. His Newoires, which were published at Paris in 1834, have been trans lated into English by Payne (London, 1396).