Joachim Vilate

An issue of a bourgeoise family of Haute-Marche, he was the son of François Vilate, a surgeon juror of Ahun, and Marie Decourteix (or de Courteix).

[3] After his father's death he attended a seminary at Limoges, and was named by the administrators of the second professor's department along with the city's royal college,[4] in 1791, he was a rhetoric at Saint-Gaultier in Indre.

On 12 October 1793 when Hébert accused Marie-Antoinette during her trial of incest with her son, Vilate had dinner with Barère, Saint-Just and Robespierre.

[9] Vilate was arrested on 20 July 1794 (3 Thermidor, year II) on orders of Billaud-Varenne for the crime of having invited Johann David Hermann, the piano-forte teacher of the royal family, to the sessions of the tribunal.

[11] Sentenced to death, he was guillotined, with fourteen other defendants on 18 Floreal, Year III (May 7, 1795), in the Place de Grève, Paris at about eleven o'clock in the morning.

The Pavillon de Flore , the seat of the Committee of Public Safety and General Police Bureau. Also, Joachim Vilate, a dandy , lived there in an apartment. Drawing in brown ink (1814)