Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot


Jean-Baptiste Edmond Fleuriot-Lescot or Lescot-Fleuriot was a Belgian architect, sculptor and a revolutionary. He was mayor of Paris for 2 months and 18 days in 1794.
He was elected March 13, 1793 substitute Fouquier-Tinville, public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal.
Fleuriot-Lescot was appointed commissioner of public works,, the 21st floréal. He kept the town hall for 2 months and 18 days.
On the 9th of Thermidor, he published a proclamation in which he excited the people "to rise en masse to defend their true friends." Fleuriot-Lescot hastily assembled the council of the Commune, as Robespierre was shut up in the Luxembourg; declared insurrectionary views and delivered the decrees of charge.
At this time Robespierrists were welcomed to the Common House. The Convention struck a decree outlawing the mayor and all the council of the commune. Fleuriot-Lescot was arrested with them by the gendarmes who remained faithful to the Convention, led by Leonard Bourdon. He appeared before the Revolutionary Tribunal on the 10th of Thermidor at two o'clock in the morning, and was identified by Lieudon who demanded against him to replace Fouquier-Tinville. Fleuriot-Lescot was sentenced to the guillotine, the final death among twenty-one other convicts that day.