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.
| Name | Dates and Actions | Image |
|---|---|---|
| Antoine Louis Albitte | Dieppe, 30 December 1761 23 or 25 December 1812, Lithuania died during retreat from Russia of fatigue and hunger.[2] | |
| Paul Barras | 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829 | |
| Jean Bassal | 3 May 1802 | |
| Pierre-Louis Bentabole | 4 June 1756 - 22 April 1798 | |
| André Antoine Bernard | 19 October 1818, Funchal, Madeira (Spain). Also called Bernard de Saintes, Bernard de Xantes, André Antoine Bernard de Jeuzines, and Pioche-fer Bernard | |
| Pierre Bourbotte | 5 June 1763, Vault-de-Lugny – 17 June 1795, Paris. Guillotined. | |
| Leonard Bourdon | 6 November 1754, Alençon – 29 May 1807, Breslau | |
| Jean François Boursault-Malherbe | ||
| Jacques Brival | 1751–1820 | |
| Name | Dates and Actions | Image |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Cadroy See also | ||
| Jean-Baptiste Carrier | 1756 – 16 December 1794; slaughtered thousands as a representative; guillotined | |
| Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac | 0 January 1763 – 24 March 1829 | |
| Guillaume Chaudron-Rousseau See also | ||
| Charles Cochon de Lapparent | 24 January 1750 - 17 July 1825 | |
| Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois | 19 June 1749 – 8 June 1796; | |
| Georges Couthon | (22 December 1755 – 28 July 1794 | |
| Joseph-Marie Cusset See also | ||
| Georges Frédéric Dentzel See also | ||
| Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé | ||
| André Dumont See also André Dumont | ||
| Ernest Dominique François Joseph Duquesnoy | 17 May 1749, Bouvigny-Boyeffles - 17 June 1795, Paris Suicide, although condemned to guillotine. | |
| Jean-François Escudier See also | ||
| François Joachim Esnue-Lavallée See also | ||
| Claude Dominique Côme Fabre See also | ||
| Gilbert-Amable Faure | ||
| Joseph Fouché also called 1st Duke of Otranto | ||
| Louis Marie Stanislas Fréron | 17 August 1754 – 15 July 1802 | |
| Name | Dates and Actions | Image |
|---|---|---|
| 1817 or 1818 in Ohio (US) | ||
| Thomas-Augustin de Gasparin | 7 November 1793, general of brigade | |
| 8 September 1836, Paris, | ||
| 21 August 1818 | ||
| 1838 | ||
| Pierre-Mathurin Gillet | 4 November 1795 | |
| Jean-Marie Claude Alexandre Goujon | 17 June 1795, suicide before execution | |
| 11 October 1823, Montaigu, Vendée cousin, below | ||
| 1 July 1823, Montaigu, Vendée | ||
| 15 September 1798 Quimper (Brittany) | ||
| Nicolas Hentz | 5 June 1753, Metz after 1829 possibly near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania | |
| Jeanbon Saint-André | ||
| 15 February 1839, Paris | ||
| François Sébastien Christophe Laporte | ||
| Joseph Le Bon | 29 September 1765 – 10 October 1795 Condemned to death for abuse of his power as a representative on mission. | |
| Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas | 28 July 1794, Paris. Committed suicide (pistol) prior to arrests on 9 Thermidor | |