Pestilence Elder, Nicolas Sylvester

Grocer in Auxerre . Since 1790, the department administrator was Yonna , from whom he was elected to the Convention , where he joined the Montagnards . During the trial of Louis XVI, he voted for death without appeal or adjournment. After the murder, Lepeliete reported to the Convention on the circumstances of the death of the deputy. At the beginning of 1793 he was the Commissioner of the Convention in the departments of Champagne and for his cruelty towards opponents of the Revolution he was nicknamed the “lubricant of the guillotine”. April 9, 1793 became a member of the Public Security Committee .

As a personal friend of Marat Mor, he visited him on July 12, 1793, when the latter was lying in a healing bath. On the evening of July 13, while Mor and his deputy, David, were reporting at the Jacobin Club about the health status of the Friend of the people, the news of Marat’s murder spread. Pestilence took part in the first interrogation of Charlotte Corday , who was detained at the crime scene, and then transferred her to the prison of Saint Germain Abbey.

In the fall of 1793, he cultivated the Cult of Reason in the departments of Seine and Marne and Yonne , and participated in the de-Christianization . He survived during the Thermidorian coup , although he was counted among the "terrorists" and "Robespierre’s eagerness." But his end was already a foregone conclusion. After the suppression of the Prerial uprising on May 20-23, 1795 in Paris and the decree on his arrest, he committed suicide in the head. ^[four]