Armand-Gaston Camus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Armand-Gaston Camus (April 2, 1740 – November 2, 1804), French revolutionist, was a successful advocate before the French Revolution. In 1789 he was elected by the Third Estate of Paris to the Estates-General, and attracted attention by his speeches against social inequalities.
Elected to the National Convention by the département of Haute-Loire, he was named member of the Committee of Public Safety, and then sent as one of the commissioners charged with the surveillance of General C. F. Dumouriez. Delivered with his colleagues to the Austrians on the 3rd of April 1793, he was exchanged for the daughter of Louis XVI in November 1795. He played an inconspicuous role in the Council of Five Hundred.
On the 14th of August 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 and became absorbed in literary work. He remained an austere republican, refusing to take part in the Napoleonic régime.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
