in the name of France that soon people will search the banks of the Seine to see if Paris has ever existed"<ref>"Si jamais la Convention était avilie, si jamais par une de ces insurrections qui depuis le 10 mars se renouvellent sans cesse, et dont les magistrats n'ont jamais averti la Convention [...] Si par ces insurrections toujours renaissantes il arrivait qu'on portât atteinte à la représentation nationale, je vous le déclare, au nom de la France entière, Paris serait anéanti... ". He said also : « Bientôt, on chercherait sur les rives de la Seine la place où cette ville aurait existé ».</ref> Flight On 2 June 1793 he offered his resignation as representative of the people, but was not comprised in the decree by which the Convention determined upon the arrest of twenty-nine Girondists. On 3 October, however, his arrest was decreed along with that of several other Girondist deputies who had left the Convention and were fomenting civil war in the departments. 1794–1795 Initially proscribed during the Thermidorian Reaction, he was allowed to return to the Convention on 4 December 1794. Seating to the Right, he became an adversary of more extremist revolutionaries. In May 1795, he was sent to the département of Bouches-du-Rhône to uncover and prosecute fleeing Jacobins, which led him to being suspected of royalist sympathies. 1795–1797 On 13 October 1795, now regarded as a royalist, he was elected deputy for the Var to the Council of Five Hundred, where he played a very insignificant role. In 1797 he retired to Draguignan. End of life In 1802, he published a pamphlet titled De l'immortalité de l'âme ("Immortality of Soul"), in which he praised Catholicism, and in 1804 another pamphlet, Réflexions relatives au sénatus-consulte du 28 floréal an XII, an enthusiastic apology for the Empire. He was a supporter of Napoléon Bonaparte, who named him Baron in 1813. Upon the restoration he professed such royalist sentiments that he was not disturbed, in spite of the 1816 law proscribing members of the Convention who had voted to execute the king. In 1825, he died in Grasse, in a deep anonymity. See FA Aulard, Les Orateurs de la Legislative et de la Convention'' (Paris, 2nd ed., 1906). See also French Revolution References Others References 1755 births 1825 deaths People from Grasse Girondins Members of the Legislative Assembly (France) Deputies to the French National Convention Members of the