During the French Revolution (1789–1799 or 1815), a représentant en mission (English: representative on mission) was an extraordinary envoy of the Legislative Assembly. The term is most often assigned to deputies designated by the National Convention for maintaining law and order in the départements and armies. They had powers to oversee conscription into the army and to monitor both local military command and local compliance with Revolutionary agendas.
Such inspectors had existed in some form under the Ancien Régime, but the position was systematized during the Reign of Terror and the representatives were given absolute power.[1] Some of them abused their powers and exercised a veritable dictatorship at a local level.
19 October 1818, Funchal, Madeira (Spain). Also called Bernard de Saintes, Bernard de Xantes, André Antoine Bernard de Jeuzines, and Pioche-fer Bernard
19 June 1749 – 8 June 1796; executed more than 2,000 in the city of Lyon while a representative on mission Deported in 1795 to French Guiana, where he died of Yellow Fever.
(22 December 1755 – 28 July 1794 radical, colleague with Robespierre and de Saint-Just; influential in development of Law of 22 Prairial, which increased the rate at which accused counter-revolutionaries were executed; Guillotined with Robespierre.
.JPG)
.JPG)
