Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux

Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ʒɑ̃ maʁi baʁbaʁu]; 6 March 1767 – 25 June 1794) was a Girondin politician of the Revolutionary period and Freemason.

In 1789 he was appointed greffier to the commune of Marseille, and in 1792 was commissioned to go to the Legislative Assembly and demand the accusation of the directorate of the département of Bouches-du-Rhône, as accomplices in a Royalist movement in Arles.

[3] According to Barbaroux, who visited Robespierre early August 1792, his pretty boudoir was full of images of himself in every form and art; a painting, a drawing, a bust, a relief and six physionotraces on the tables.

During the final struggle between the Girondists and the Montagnards (Insurrection of 31 May - 2 June 1793), Barbaroux refused to resign as deputy, and rejected the offer made by the sans-culottes in Paris to give hostages for the arrested representatives.

On 18 June Élie Guadet and Jean-Baptiste Salle were arrested; Pétion de Villeneuve and Francois Buzot succeeded in killing themselves.

Charles Barbaroux by Auguste Raffet