Robert Lindet

French First Republic state institutions Jacobins and French revolutionary radicals 1746–1825 ○ Natural causes

Montagnard lawyer who ran food supply and economic controls for the Committee of Public Safety

Born at Bernay in 1746, he practised law there and became procureur-syndic of its district in 1789. As a deputy for the Eure in the Legislative Assembly and the Convention he wrote the report on the crimes imputed to Louis XVI, voted for the king's death without appeal and was instrumental in setting up the Revolutionary Tribunal. He entered the Committee of Public Safety in April 1793 and supervised the National Food Commission, in charge of food and clothing supply and the enforcement of the Maximum. He refused to sign the order for the execution of the Dantonists. He opposed the Thermidorian Reaction, defended Barère, Billaud-Varenne and Collot d'Herbois, and escaped condemnation only through the amnesty of 1795. He was Minister of Finance from June to November 1799, refused office after 18 Brumaire and was proscribed as a regicide in 1816.

Also known as: Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet