biography
| name: |
Vergniaud, Pierre Victurnien
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pronunciation:
[vairnyoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1753–93)
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| biography:
| French politician, born in Limoges, C France. He studied in Paris, became an advocate in Bordeaux (1781), and was sent to the National Assembly (1791), where he became spokesman for the Girondins. In the Convention he voted for the king's death, having previously failed to persuade the Assembly to spare the king's life. When the Girondins clashed with the rival revolutionary faction, the Montagnards, Vergniaud and his party were arrested and guillotined. |
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