Committee of Public Safety
Jean Baptiste Treilhard became a member of what organization or association in Apr 1793?
Jean Baptiste Treilhard Jean-Baptiste Treilhard ( ; 3 January 1742 – 1 December 1810 ) was an important French statesman of the revolutionary period . He passed through the troubled times of the Republic and Empire with great political savvy , playing a decisive role at important times . Without achieving the notoriety of some of his more famous revolutionary colleagues , he held a number of key positions - President of the National Constituent Assembly ( 20 July - 1 August 1790 ) , President of the National Convention ( 27 December 1792 – 10 January 1793 , coinciding with the trial of Louis XVI , three-time member of the Committee of Public Safety ( 7 April 1793 – 12 June 1793 ; 31 July 1794 - 5 November 1794 ; 4 May 1795 – 2 August 1795 ) , chairman of the Council of Five Hundred , member of the French Directory . Eugene Marbeau describes Jean-Baptiste Treilhard as a man honest and right , who is content to do his duty in the situation.. . but who does not seek.. . to dominate events . He is buried at the Panthéon . Biography . Born in Brive-la-Gaillarde , Corrèze , to a father who was a lawyer at the Présidial and maire perpétuel of Brive . Jean Baptiste was a student at the collège des doctrinaires ( now the Hôtel de Ville ) at Brive , where he received an education balancing the requirements of science and faith . After studies in law , Jean-Baptiste Treilhard settled in Paris and became , in 1761 , a lawyer at the Parlement . He was a protégé of Turgot , future Controller-General of Finances ( 24 August 1774 – 12 May 1776 ) to Louis XVI . Treilhard was retained to care for judicial affairs of the Condé family . French Revolution . Treilhard was elected deputy by the Third Estate of Paris to the Estates-General of 1789 , then to the National Constituent Assembly . His most important early role was in the Comité ecclésiastique ( Ecclesiastical Committee ) where he took the lead in promoting the Civil Constitution of the Clergy , a major reorganization of the Roman Catholic Church ( including the suppression of its monasteries and the nationalization of its property ) . He served one term as President of the National Constituent Assembly ( 20 July - 1 August 1790 ) . Ineligible , like all the members of the Constituent Assembly , for the Legislative Assembly , he became president of the criminal tribunal of Paris , but was judged as lacking of firmness . Elected to the National Convention by the department of Seine-et-Oise , Treilhard was President ( 27 December 1792 – 10 January 1794 ) of the National Convention , and in this capacity served as first magistrate during a part of the trial of Louis XVI , in which he voted for death without reprieve . He was an inaugural member of the Committee of Public Safety ( 7 April 1793 – 12 June 1793 ) , but was excluded by the Montagnard . He is imprisoned , but will survive the Reign of terror . On 31 July 1794 , after 9 Thermidor Year II ( 27 July 1794 ) , he returned to the Committee until 5 November 1794 . He would serve again from 4 May to 2 August 1795 . Treilhard served on three missions : - 17 June - 7 August 1793 : to Gironde and Lot-et-Garonne , with fellow deputy Mathieu . - 22 September - 25 November 1793 : to Marly ( Seine-et-Oise , today Yvelines ) , with Auguis and Enlart - 30 December 1794 – 4 April 1795 : to Bec-dAmbes ( Gironde ) and again the Lot-et-Garonne Directory . Chairman of the Council of Five Hundred in the month of Nivôse , Year IV ( 22 December 1795 – 23 January 1796 ) . In his speech from 1 Pluviose year IV ( 21 January 1796 ) , he delivered a speech on the third anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI , in which he execrated monarchy . In 1795 , he arranged the exchange of the daughter of Louis XVI , Marie Thérèse of France , future Duchess of Angoulême , who was a prisoner of the Republic since autumn 1792 , for the commissioners to armies betrayed by the general Dumoriez and turned over to the Austrians in spring 1793 . After refusing an appointment as ambassador to Naples in 1796 , he served as a judge of the Court of Cassation ( 6 September - 23 October 1797 ) , before the Directory of France appointed him minister plenipotentiary at the Congress of Rastadt in December 1797 ) . Treilhard became one of five Directors , the chief executive body of France , 15 May 1798 ( 26 Floréal year VI ) in replacement of François de Neufchâteau . He chaired the Directory 24 August - 27 November 1798 . On 17 June 1799 , his election as a member of the Executive Board is invalidated by a resolution of the Council of Ancients , on the grounds of ineligibility due to an irregularity in the election . He is succeeded by Louis-Jérôme Gohier . Consulate and Empire . After the coup of 18 Brumaire ( 10 November 1799 ) , during the Consulate , he was appointed on 4 April 1800 vice-president of the court of appeal of the department of the Seine , and became its president on 1 January 1802 . He chaired the legislative section of the Council of State , in 1802 , and participated in the drafting of the French Civil Code , the Criminal Code and the Code of commerce in close collaboration with Tronchet and Portalis . He also served as a senator . He collected such honours as being named Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor 14 June 1804 , and comte de lEmpire 24 April 1808 . On 30 March 1809 he is named to the Council of State , a position he held until his death . As officer of the Empire , he is buried at the Panthéon 5 December 1810 . Under the Directory , he entered the Council of Five Hundred , of which he was president during the month of Nivôse , Year IV , and was a member of the Court of Cassation , as well plenipotentiary at the Second Congress of Rastatt ( December 1797 ) . Treilhard became a director in the year VI . References . - Attribution - Archontogy .