Hébertist general who commanded the Parisian Revolutionary Army
Appointed commander of the Parisian Revolutionary Army in September 1793, he was arrested with Hébert, Vincent, Momoro and others in March 1794 and executed on 24 March.
Born in Soissons, Ronsin served in the army as a young man and after leaving it lived as a playwright and tutor. During the Revolution he became an orator of the Cordeliers Club; in 1793 he took charge of a department of Bouchotte’s War Ministry, was sent to the Vendée and was rapidly promoted to general. In September that year he became commander of the Parisian Revolutionary Army and in November led a detachment to the repression at Lyon. In the course he appears among the Hébertists arrested in March 1794 with Hébert, Vincent, Momoro and others and executed on 24 March. The charge of a military plot built on the Revolutionary Army was the prosecution’s case and should be read as such. The Revolutionary Army was disbanded days after his execution.
Activities and affiliations
- 1793–1794 Military command · French First Republic state institutions
- 1792–1794 Political and party leadership · Cordeliers Club
Career Timeline
- 1772Left the army and worked as a playwright and tutor.
- 1792Appointed supply commissioner to Dumouriez’s army in Belgium.
- 1793Took charge of a department of Bouchotte’s War Ministry in April, was sent to the Vendée in May and was promoted to general in July.
- 1793Became commander of the Parisian Revolutionary Army in September and led a detachment to Lyon in November.
- 1793–1794Arrested on 17 December and released on 2 February after a Cordeliers campaign.
- 1794Re-arrested with the Hébertists in March and executed on 24 March.