During the Trial of Louis XVI he voted for the people to decide the king's fate, and for the death penalty to be suspended until all of the royal family had been expelled from France. On 6 June 1793 he was one of the deputies who signed a protest against the Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793 and was therefore one of the seventy-three for whom arrest warrants were issued. On 3 October he was arrested and spent several months in prison.