Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot

Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot
8th Mayor of Paris
In office 10 May 1794 – 27 July 1794
Preceded by	Jean-Nicolas Pache
Succeeded by	Office abolished (no mayor until 1848 with Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès, following the overthrow of Louis Philippe I)
Personal details
Born	1761 Brussels, Austrian Netherlands
Died	28 July 1794 (age 33) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	architect, sculptor, revolutionary

Jean-Baptiste Edmond Fleuriot-Lescot (also known as Lescot-Fleuriot) (1761 – 28 July 1794) was an architect, sculptor, and revolutionary from the Austrian Netherlands.

He lived to be only 33 years old.

Public Appointments

He served as mayor of Paris for 2 months and 18 days in 1794.

He was elected on March 13, 1793, as a substitute for Fouquier-Tinville, the public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal.

Fleuriot-Lescot was appointed commissioner of public works on May 10, 1794 (21st Floreal). He held the office of mayor for 2 months and 18 days.

The French Revolution

On the 9th of Thermidor, Fleuriot-Lescot published a proclamation (alongside Hanriot and Payan) urging the people to rise up en masse to defend their true friends.

He hastily convened the council of the Commune, as Robespierre was confined in the Luxembourg Palace and declared insurrectionary views, issuing decrees of charge.

At this time, Robespierrists were welcomed at the Common House.

However, the Convention responded by issuing a decree outlawing the mayor, and the entire council of the commune.

Fleuriot-Lescot, along with 50 others, was arrested at 2 am by gendarmes, loyal to the Convention, led by Leonard Bourdon.

He was brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal on the 10th of Thermidor, identified by Lieudon, who requested that he replace Fouquier-Tinville.

Fleuriot-Lescot was sentenced to death by the guillotine, along with 21 other convicts that day including Robespierre, Saint-Just, and Couthon.

Bibliography

• Réflexions générales sur le système employé par les intrigants, depuis 1789, pour entraver la marche de la liberté et sur les moyens de la faire triompher de tous ses ennemis, 1792