National Convention
Saint-Just enters national politics and becomes associated with the radical Jacobin Mountain
Role range: 1789-1795
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Louis Antoine Saint-Just Biography and Timeline
Follow Louis Antoine Saint-Just through 103 dated historical records for France.
Louis Antoine Saint-Just, historical timeline
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1792–1794Years on this page
1792
National Convention
Saint-Just enters national politics and becomes associated with the radical Jacobin Mountain.
Role range: 1789-1795
Trial of Louis XVI Speech
Saint-Just tells the Convention that the deposed king should be judged as an enemy of the Republic rather than as an ordinary citizen.
Role range: 1789-1799
First Convention Speech
Saint-Just used his first major Convention speech to argue that Louis XVI should be treated as an enemy rather than an ordinary citizen.
Role range: 1789-1792
The Former King as an Enemy of the Nation
Saint-Just argued that Louis XVI should be judged as a political enemy of the nation, challenging ordinary legal protection for a deposed monarch.
Role range: 1789-1799
Debate over revolutionary sovereignty
Saint-Just used the royal trial debate to insist that national sovereignty could not be subordinated to a former monarch's legal privileges.
Role range: 1789-1792
Denial of royal inviolability
Saint-Just challenged the notion that the constitutional king's former inviolability could shield him from revolutionary judgment.
Role range: 1789-1792
Election as deputy for Aisne
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just entered the National Convention as a young representative of the department of Aisne.
Role range: 1789-1792
Entry into the Mountain
Saint-Just aligned himself with the radical Mountain in the Convention as factions disputed the future of the Republic.
Role range: 1789-1792
Speech on royal accountability
In November Saint-Just argued that the deposed Louis XVI should be treated as a political enemy rather than an ordinary citizen.
Role range: 1789-1792
1793
Trial of Louis XVI
Saint-Just argues that the former king must be judged as an enemy of the people and the Revolution
Role range: 1789-1795
Trial of Louis XVI
Saint-Just argues that the former king must be judged as an enemy of the people and the Revolution.
Role range: 1789-1795
Military Oversight Proposal
Saint-Just proposed that Convention deputies directly supervise military operations or receive reports without executive intermediaries.
Role range: 1793-1799
Departmental Administration Proposal
Saint-Just proposed suppressing departmental administrations as resistance to central revolutionary authority increased.
Role range: 1793-1799
Municipal Reform Proposal
Saint-Just proposed limiting each town to a single municipality regardless of its population.
Role range: 1793-1799
Committee of Public Safety Membership
Saint-Just joined the Committee of Public Safety and became one of its most forceful younger members.
Role range: 1793-1799
Revolutionary Government Report
Saint-Just reported for suspending the 1793 Constitution and maintaining revolutionary government until peace.
Role range: 1793-1799
Revolutionary Government Until Peace
Saint-Just reports to the Convention that government must remain revolutionary until peace, formalizing exceptional wartime administration.
Role range: 1789-1799
Mission to Rhine Army
Saint-Just and Le Bas were sent to the eastern armies to restore discipline and strengthen defence against Austrian pressure.
Role range: 1793-1799
Saint-Just Defends Wartime Revolutionary Rule
Saint-Just defended suspending ordinary constitutional government until peace, asserting that exceptional institutions were required for national survival.
Role range: 1789-1799
Army of Rhine discipline
Saint-Just demanded stricter discipline and reliable command arrangements among troops defending France's northeastern frontier.
Role range: 1793-1799
Collaboration with Philippe Le Bas
Saint-Just worked with representative Philippe Le Bas on the Rhine mission to supervise supplies, commanders and discipline.
Role range: 1793-1799
Constitutional drafting work
Saint-Just participated in the Convention's work on a republican constitution amid war and internal division.
Role range: 1793-1799
Critique of executive intermediaries
Saint-Just argued that deputies should receive direct information about military affairs instead of relying exclusively on executive channels.
Role range: 1793-1799
Debates on local administration
Saint-Just advocated changes to municipal structures as revolutionaries argued about the balance between local government and national authority.
Role range: 1793-1799
Defense of revolutionary government
Saint-Just defended exceptional wartime authority on the grounds that the Republic remained endangered by armed enemies.
Role range: 1793-1799
Drafting democratic institutions
In debates about the Constitution of 1793, Saint-Just helped advance a political framework grounded in popular sovereignty.
Role range: 1793-1799
Membership of Committee of Public Safety
Saint-Just joined the Committee of Public Safety and became an influential advocate of centralized emergency government.
Role range: 1793-1799
Military oversight proposal
Saint-Just supported closer supervision of commanders and military operations by the elected Convention.
Role range: 1793-1799
Mission to Rhine frontier
Saint-Just traveled to the eastern frontier to help restore military effectiveness during the campaign against Coalition forces.
Role range: 1793-1799
Proposal on departmental bodies
Saint-Just proposed curbing departmental administration as opposition to the Convention emerged in several regions.
Role range: 1793-1799
Relationship with Robespierre
Saint-Just became one of Robespierre's most reliable associates on the Committee of Public Safety and in the Convention.
Role range: 1793-1799
Relief of Landau
Saint-Just's mission formed part of the effort to strengthen French forces before the siege of Landau was lifted.
Role range: 1793-1799
Report on government until peace
Saint-Just presented a report explaining why constitutional government would be deferred until conditions of peace were restored.
Role range: 1793-1799
Requisitioning for frontier army
During his eastern mission Saint-Just helped impose emergency measures to provide troops with essential equipment and provisions.
Role range: 1793-1799
Strasbourg political intervention
Saint-Just and Le Bas exercised the Convention's extraordinary authority in Strasbourg during the frontier emergency.
Role range: 1793-1799
Suspension of ordinary constitutional rule
The Convention adopted revolutionary government as an interim wartime system, following arguments advanced by Saint-Just and fellow committee members.
Role range: 1793-1799
Vote during trial of Louis XVI
Saint-Just supported a death sentence for Louis XVI, putting his ideas about revolutionary sovereignty into practice.
Role range: 1793-1799
1794
President of National Convention
Saint-Just chaired the Convention for a term beginning in February while remaining active in emergency government.
Role range: 1793-1799
First Ventose Decree
Saint-Just proposes measures permitting confiscated property of revolutionary enemies to be redirected toward impoverished supporters of the Republic.
Role range: 1789-1799
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