André Antoine Bernard

In the French revolutionary calendar, adopted in 1793, Bernard's name-day (30 November, for Saint Andrew) fell on the tenth day of Frimaire, and marked the Festival of the Iron Pick-axe.

In 1793 and 1794, he became notorious in the Haute-Saône and the Côte-d'Or for arresting suspected "enemies of the people", sending them to the revolutionary tribunal and the guillotine.

[1] As a representative of the convention, he informed the municipal authorities: "Je vous apporte la liberté... j'ai des canons avec moi" (I bring you liberty...

In 1816, he was among those exiled from France as one of the regicides of King Louis XVI,[4] and settled first in Belgium, where he established a new pro-democracy periodical, Le Surveillant.

Bernard's portrait in pen and ink by Jacques-Louis David, done when they were in prison together at the Collèdes Quatre Nations, Paris,[5] in July 1795) is in the Getty Museum.