Joseph Delaunay (24 December 1752,

Angers Angers (, , ;) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Duchy of Anjou, Anjou until the French Revolution. The i ...

– 5 April 1794,

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) was a French deputy. He was national commissar at the Tribunal of Angers and, in 1791, he was elected as a deputy to the Legislative Assembly by the

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Maine-et-Loire Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indr ...

. In 1792, he was re-elected as deputy to the

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by the same département. He was tried for corruption in the affair of the liquidation of the Compagnie des Indes Orientales, condemned to death and

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d on 16 germinal year II (5 April 1794).

Sources

* ''Histoire de la Révolution française'' by

Jules Michelet Jules Michelet (; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian and writer. He is best known for his multivolume work ''Histoire de France'' (History of France). Michelet was influenced by Giambattista Vico; he admired Vico's emphas ...

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Delaunay, On the reinforcement of the rôle of Paris's Comité de surveillance - Tuesday 2 October 1792
{{DEFAULTSORT:Delaunay, Joseph 1752 births 1794 deaths Deputies to the French National Convention People from Angers French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution