Jean-Baptiste Baudin

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Baudin Victor (23 October 1811 Nantua - 3 December 1851 Paris) was a French physician and deputy to the assembly in 1849 famous for having been killed on a barricade.

Baudin was initiated into Freemasonry on 15 June 1842, at the Lodge Hall Friends of Honor French, which was suspended in 1846.

While Victor Schoelcher, accompanied by several MPs, without arms, went out to meet a company of the 19th line coming from the Place de la Bastille with the intention to negotiate with the soldiers, laborers mocked these representatives of the people, saying: "Do you think we'll get us killed for you to keep your five dollars a day!"

This initiative earned Louis Charles Delescluze, publisher of a trial in which Léon Gambetta, then a young lawyer, distinguished himself.

The monument, located behind the Place de la Bastille on the avenue Ledru-Rollin near the spot where he was killed, was dismantled in 1942 to be melted under a law of the Vichy government to "recovery Nonferrous Metals".