French Revolution 1789-1799 Tronchet and Malesherbes Guillaume Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

French Revolution, -Guillaume Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (6 December 1721 - 23 April 1794) often referred to as Malesherbes or Lamoignon-Malesherbes was a French statesman minister and afterwards counsel for the defence of Louis XVI.Malesherbes in December 1792 in spite of the fair excuse his old age and long retirement would have given him he voluntarily left his asylum and undertook with François Tronchet and Raymond Desèze the defence of the king before the Convention and it was his painful task to break the news of his condemnation to the king. with François Tronchet and Raymond Desèze the defence of the king before the Convention and it was his painful task to break the news of his condemnation to the king. After this effort he returned once more to the country but in December 1793 he was arrested with his daughter his son-in-law M. de Rosanbo and his grandchildren imprisoned in the Prison Port-Libre and on the 23 April 1794 he was guillotined in Paris after having seen all whom he loved in the world executed before his eyes for their relationship to him. (illustration by Yan' Dargent 1824-1899)