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Gilbert Romme (
March 26 1750–
June 17 1795) was a
French politician and mathematician who developed the
French Republican Calendar.
Biography
Charles-Gilbert Romme was born in
Riom,
Puy-de-Dôme, in the
Auvergne region of
France, where he received an education in medicine and mathematics. After spending five years in
Paris, he went to
Russia to become the tutor of
Paul Stroganoff. He returned to Paris in
1788 and entered political life.
He was a member of the Masonic lodge,
Les Neuf Sœurs.
Elected in
September 10 1791 to the
Legislative Assembly, Romme aligned himself with the
Girondists, but after his election to the
National Convention on
September 6 1792, he sided with the
Montagnards.
He voted in favour of the death sentence for
Louis XVI. Later, in the events leading up to the
Reign of Terror, he was arrested by Girondist supporters and was imprisoned in
Caen for two months.
During his tenure in National Convention, Romme served in the
Comité de l’instruction Publique (
Committee of Public Education), where he presented his
Republican calendar on
September 17 1793. Aware of their military importance, he also was an early supporter of
semaphore telegraphs. He served as president of the Convention from
November 21 to
December 6 1793.
Because he was on an assignment to organise gun production for the navy, he'd no hand in the coup of
9 Thermidor an II (
July 27 1794), which resulted in the fall of the
Robespierre (and ultimately led to the return of the Girondists).
When rioting
sans-culottes, demanding bread and the
Jacobin constitution, violently occupied the Convention on
Prairial an III (
May 20 1795), Romme supported their demands. This insurrection was quickly put down however, and he and other Montagnards were arrested. While waiting for their trial, the defendants agreed to commit suicide in case of a death sentence.
On Prairial 29 (
June 17 1795), Romme and five others were sentenced to the
guillotine. With a knife hidden by
Jean-Marie Goujon, he stabbed himself repeatedly while on the staircase leading from the courtroom, and died — his last words are reported to have been "I die for the republic".
In
Romme le Montagnard (1833), Marc de Vissac described Romme as a small, awkward and clumsy man with an ill complexion, and a dull orator, but also as possessing a pleasant and instructive style of conversation.
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