Edme-Bonaventure Courtois

Edme-Bonaventure Courtois (born 15 July 1754 in Troyes, France - died on 6 December 1816 in Brussels) was a deputy of the National Convention.

[2] The other members were: Fréron, Barras, Tallien, Thuriot, Rovère, Garnier de l’Aube and Guffroy (Fouché was not involved).

After the 9 Thermidor, he was a member of the commission in charge of the inventory of the papers owned by Robespierre, including the will of Marie-Antoinette written in the Conciergerie on her last day 16 October 1793.

[4][5] Yet by the time the moderate deputy Edme-Bonaventure Courtois presented the official report to the assembly on 8 Thermidor Year III (July 26, 1795), a thorough reconceptualization of the day had occurred.

This rewriting of history was congruent with the general direction of Thermidorian policies toward popular involvement in the revolutionary process.

[13][14] On 25 January 1816, he tried to avoid the ban by writing to the councillor of State by Louis Becquey to make him aware that he had documents concerning the royal family, found in the papers of Robespierre, and that he offered to the King, including a letter written by Marie Antoinette to her sister-in-law Madame Élisabeth at the time of this ordeal, called "the testament of the Queen"; a glove that belonged to the Dauphin; a small bundle of hair from Marie-Antoinette.