Jean Henri Bancal des Issarts

Jean Henri Bancal des Issarts (3 November 1750, Saint-Martin-de-Londres – 27 May 1826, Paris) was a French politician.

He was one of four men sent with the Minister for War Pierre de Ruel to Charles François Dumouriez.

He was handed over to the Austrians, though his imprisonment meant that unlike most of his Girondin friends he escaped the guillotine.

He was freed in exchange for the daughter of Louis XVI in November 1795 and sat in the Council of Five Hundred until May 1797, but made little impact within it.

He then retired to Clermont-Ferrand, where he published Du nouvel ordre social fondé sur la religion (On the new social order founded on religion) and sank into mysticism, studying biblical Hebrew and Greek so as to read the original texts of the Bible.