Jean-Lambert Tallien was a French politician of the revolutionary period.
20 Facts About Jean-Lambert Tallien
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Jean-Lambert Tallien committed himself to his new mission and habitually appeared at the bar of the Assembly on behalf of the Commune.
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Jean-Lambert Tallien resigned his post in the Commune on being elected, in spite of his youth, deputy to the National Convention by the department of Seine-et-Oise, and he began his legislative career by defending the conduct of the Commune during the massacres.
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Jean-Lambert Tallien was one of the most notorious envoys sent over to establish the Terror in the departments, and soon established a revolutionary grip on Bordeaux.
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The young Jean-Lambert Tallien, who was not yet 27, became notorious for his administration of justice in Bordeaux through his bloody affinity to "feed la sainte guillotine".
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However, after the initial days of his mission in Bordeaux, Jean-Lambert Tallien began to shift away from his bloody Terrorist tendencies.
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Jean-Lambert Tallien was recalled to Paris from Bordeaux after being denounced by the Committee of Public Safety for "moderantisme".
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Jean-Lambert Tallien was set to face trial and probably would have been executed.
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Robespierre's own political ideas implied his readiness to strike at many of his colleagues in the committees, and Jean-Lambert Tallien was one of the men condemned.
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Jean-Lambert Tallien was instrumental in suppressing the Revolutionary Tribunal and the Jacobin Club; he attacked Jean-Baptiste Carrier and Joseph Le Bon, who had been representatives of the Committee to Nantes and Arras respectively, and he fought with energy against the insurgents of Prairial.
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Jean-Lambert Tallien reestablished his paper, L'Ami des Citoyens, and contributed to the unified attack of the right wing on the remaining leftists.
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However, there is evidence that Jean-Lambert Tallien was arranging a compromise with Spain and would support the imposition of Louis XVIII as a monarchist "without the abuses".
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Jean-Lambert Tallien was sent by the National Convention to the scene.
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Partially because Jean-Lambert Tallien had been corresponding with the Bourbons in Spain, he set up military commissions to try all of the emigre prisoners.
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Jean-Lambert Tallien was held responsible and lost support from the jeunesse doree and the right wing that were supporting him.
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Madame Jean-Lambert Tallien rejected him, and became the mistress of the rich banker Gabriel-Julien Ouvrard.
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Back in Paris, Jean-Lambert Tallien lived on half-pay until the fall of the Empire and the Bourbon Restoration in 1815, when he received the favour of not being exiled like the other regicides due to his poor health.
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Jean-Lambert Tallien spent his last years in poverty, living in a small house in the Allee des Veuves.
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Jean-Lambert Tallien was forced to sell his collection of books in order to sustain himself, and in May 1818 asked the government of King Louis XVIII for some relief money, which was granted in 1000 francs by minister Elie Decazes.
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Jean-Lambert Tallien died of leprosy on 16 November 1820, and was buried in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery.