Presumed portrait of Georges Couthon by François Bonneville, 1790
Member of the Committee of Public Safety
In office 10 July 1793 – 28 July 1794
32nd President of the National Convention
In office 21 December 1793 – 5 January 1794
Preceded by
Jean-Henri Voulland
Succeeded by
Jacques Louis David
Deputy of the National Convention
In office 20 September 1792 – 10 July 1794
Succeeded by
Gilbert-Amable Jourde
Constituency
Puy-de-Dôme
Personal details
Born
(1755-12-22)22 December 1755 Orcet, Kingdom of France
Died
28 July 1794(1794-07-28) (aged 38) Place de la Révolution, Paris, France
Political party
The Mountain
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Georges Auguste Couthon (French pronunciation:[ʒɔʁʒoɡystkutɔ̃], 22 December 1755 – 28 July 1794) was a French politician and lawyer known for his service as a deputy in the Legislative Assembly during the French Revolution. Couthon was elected to the Committee of Public Safety on 30 May 1793. Along with his close associate Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and Maximilien Robespierre, he formed an unofficial triumvirate within the committee which wielded power during the Reign of Terror until the three were arrested and executed in 1794 during the Thermidorian Reaction.[1][2] A Freemason,[3] Couthon played an important role in the development of the Law of 22 Prairial, which was responsible for a sharp increase in the number of executions of accused counter-revolutionaries.
^Colin Jones (2021). The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris. Oxford University Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-19-871595-5. Archived from the original on 31 May 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
^"Fall of Maximilien Robespierre".
^Antonella Beccaria (2017). I segreti della Massoneria in Italia dalla prima Gran Loggia alla P2. I Volti della Storia. Newton Compton Editori. p. 23. ISBN 978-88227-1124-3. OCLC 1141581159.
Georges Auguste Couthon (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ oɡyst kutɔ̃], 22 December 1755 – 28 July 1794) was a French politician and lawyer known for his service...
National Convention to pass the Law of 22 Prairial drafted by him and GeorgesCouthon, which accelerated the trial process and extended the death penalty...
Safety, among them key figures such as Maximilien Robespierre and GeorgesCouthon, would eventually indict Danton for counter-revolutionary activities...
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he said, broke the unity of action of the government. On 10 June, GeorgesCouthon introduced the Law of 22 Prairial to liberate the Revolutionary Tribunals...
Parisian National Guard; Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot, mayor of Paris; GeorgesCouthon, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and René-François Dumas, ex-president...
along with that of their supporters, including Philippe Le Bas and GeorgesCouthon. A period of intense civil unrest ensued, during which the members...
June (22 Prairial), the National Convention passed a law proposed by GeorgesCouthon, known as the Law of 22 Prairial, which simplified the judicial process...
voted for the arrests of Maximilien, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and GeorgesCouthon after a heated discussion. Robespierre then rose from his place on...
was executed on 28 July with 19 colleagues, including Saint-Just and GeorgesCouthon, followed by 83 members of the Commune. The Law of 22 Prairial was...
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1793 to 1794 Maximilien Robespierre, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, and GeorgesCouthon, as members of the governing Committee of Public Safety, were accused...
II under the French Revolutionary Calendar). It was proposed by Georges Auguste Couthon but seems to have been written by Maximilien Robespierre according...
Maximilien de Robespierre, Charlotte Robespierre, Augustin Robespierre and GeorgesCouthon. On the evening of 17 July, after the Champ de Mars massacre, the authorities...
Towards the end of the Terror in 1794, revolutionary leaders such as Georges Danton, Saint-Just and Maximilien Robespierre were sent to the guillotine...
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Paris city government arrested. 28 July – Robespierre, Saint-Just, GeorgesCouthon, and others, including members of the Paris Commune are guillotined...
the Paris government sent to Lyon a high level team that included GeorgesCouthon, a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety and a close colleague...
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