Joachim Vilate

Joachim Vilate (9 October 1767 in Ahun, Creuse – 7 May 1795), also known as Sempronius-Gracchus Vilate was a French priest and French revolutionary figure; an agent of the Committee of Public Safety and member of the jury of the Revolutionary Tribunal.

Biography

An issue of a bourgeoise family of Haute-Marche, he was the son of François Vilate, a surgeon juror of Ahun, and Marie Decourteix (or de Courteix).[1] He studied at Eymoutiers[2] and later at University of Bourges.[3] Later he was a seminary at Limoges, he was named by the administrators of the second professor's department along with the city's royal college,[4] in 1791, he was a rhetoric at Saint-Gaultier in Indre. He was also the author of The Secret Causes of the Revolution of 9th and 10th Thermidor and its two sequels, published during the Thermidorian reaction, while he was in prison. Sentenced to death, he was guillotined, with fourteen other defendants on 18 Floreal, Year III ( May 7, 1795 ), in the Place de Grève, Paris at about eleven o'clock in the morning.

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References

  1. ↑ Ambroise Tardieu, Grand dictionnaire historique, généalogique et biographique de la Haute-Marche, Herment, 1894 (republished by Lafitte, 1978, 430 pages, p. 421)
  2. ↑ Vilate was part of the chairmen of the college, only founded in 1778
  3. ↑ Roland Narboux, University of Bourges (French)
  4. ↑ A former Jesuit college, near the location of today's Gay Lussac Lyceum


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