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Jean Francois Rewbell
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or JEAN FRANCCOIS REWBELL (1747-1807), French politician, was born at Colmar (then in the department of Haut-Rhin) on the 8th of October 1747. He was president ( bdtonnier ) of the order of avocats in Colmar, and in 1789 was elected deputy to the States-General by the Third Estate of the bailliage of Colmar-Schlestadt. In the Constituent Assembly his oratorical gifts, legal knowledge and austerity of life gave him much influence. During the session of the Legislative Assembly he exercised the functions of procureur syndic and was subsequently secretary-general of the department of Haut-Rhin. In the Convention he was a zealous promoter of the trial of Louis XVI., but was absent on mission at the time of the king's condemnation. He took part in the reactionary movement which followed the fall of Robespierre, and became a member of the reorganized Committees of Public Safety and General Security. The moderation he displayed caused his election by seventeen departments to the Council of Five Hundred. Appointed a member of the Directory on the ist of October 1 795, he became its president in 1796, and retired by ballot in 1799. He then entered the Council of Ancients. After the coup d'etat of 18 Brumaire he retired from public life, and died at Colmar on the 23rd of November 1807.
See L. Sciout, Le Directoire (Paris, 1895-97).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Jean Francois Rewbell'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/j/jean-francois-rewbell.html. 1910.
