Léonard Bourdon

[3] He studied law in Orleans and in 1779 achieved the position of avocat aux conseils, a lawyer with the right of representing litigants before the Council of State and Court of Cassation.

He also submitted an economic project of "granaries of plenty", to fight against food scarcity and speculation on the grain and flour trade.

As the tension within the Jacobins mounted towards height of the Reign of Terror, he fell out of grace with Robespierre,[1] who denounced him as an "intriguer despised by all".

[3] During the Thermidor Reaction, he joined in the actions that lead to the arrest and execution of Robespierre, but this crisis was also the end of his political career.

This position led him in the wake of the Grand Armée, as director of military hospitals, to Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), where he died on May 29, 1807.