Jules François Paré was a French politician.

Life

A contemporary of Georges Jacques Danton at the collège at Troyes

Troyes

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, Paré first became a clerk during his studies in Paris

Paris

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 and then, thanks to his employer's support, received the post of departmental commissar and then of secretary to the provisional executive council when Georges Danton was summoned to the ministry of justice. On 20 August 1793 he was made minister of the interior to replace Dominique Joseph Garat

Dominique Joseph Garat

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. Denounced as a "new Roland" by François-Nicolas Vincent

François-Nicolas Vincent

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 and Jacques René Hébert and as a "danoniste" by Georges Couthon

Georges Couthon

Georges Auguste Couthon a French politician and lawyer in the French Revolution. Couthon would befriend Robespierre and serve on the Committee of Public Safety with him from 30 May 1793 until his and Robespierre’s deaths in 1794...

, he was dismissed on 5 April 1794, but escaped punishment, particularly the guillotine which awaited his protector. Under the French Directory

French Directory

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, from 1796 he was commissaire to the Seine department and then administrator of military hospitals, and under the First French Empire

First French Empire

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 he was made landowner of the small property in Champagne

Champagne, France

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Sources

• Histoire et dictionnaire de la Révolution française 1789-1799 by Jean Tulard, Jean-François Fayard, Alfred Fierro