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Jean Nicolas Pache Biography and Timeline

Follow Jean Nicolas Pache through 8 dated historical records for France.

Jean Nicolas Pache, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

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1793

Commune endorses action against Girondin leaders

Mayor of Paris · Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

Pache's administration became associated with section mobilization against the Girondins. Municipal influence helped transform factional conflict within the Convention into a confrontation with armed Paris.

Role range: 1793-1799

Commune supports general maximum campaign

Mayor of Paris · Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

Municipal leaders supported demands for broader price controls during the crisis of 1793. Their advocacy reflected pressure from sans-culottes who believed market intervention was necessary for survival.

Role range: 1793-1799

Jean Nicolas Pache is chosen as mayor

Mayor of Paris · Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

Pache assumed the mayoralty in February as sans-culotte politics became more assertive. He cooperated closely with a municipal council interested in price regulation and militant revolutionary oversight.

Role range: 1793-1799

Law of 14 Frimaire curtails municipal autonomy

Mayor of Paris · Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

The central government's reorganization of revolutionary administration subordinated local authorities more firmly to national committees. Pache's Commune lost room for independent political initiatives.

Role range: 1793-1799

Mayor Pache distances municipal government from faction charges

Mayor of Paris · Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

Pache tried to navigate the widening controversy around Hébertist allies. His position showed how vulnerable municipal leadership had become to charges of political disloyalty.

Role range: 1793-1799

Notre-Dame hosts Festival of Reason

Mayor of Paris · Notre-Dame de Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

The Commune supported the transformation of Notre-Dame for the Festival of Reason in November. The event dramatized the rejection of established religious authority by influential city leaders.

Role range: 1793-1799

1794

Pache removed amid attack on Hébertists

Mayor of Paris · Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

After the leading Hébertists were suppressed, Pache lost the mayoralty and was arrested. His downfall showed how quickly the Commune's political alliances could be overturned.

Role range: 1793-1799

Pache removed from Paris mayoralty

Mayor of Paris · Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

After the Hébertist prosecutions, Pache was dismissed and detained. His removal weakened the Commune's previous associations with militant sans-culotte leaders.

Role range: 1793-1799

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