Jean Debry


Jean-Antoine-Joseph de Bry, called Debry was President of the National Convention, famous for a slogan La patrie est en danger he proposed.
Debry was on 8 September 1791 elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly and on 4 September 1792 as a member of the National Convention. He voted for the death sentence of King Louis XVI and became a member of both Comité de sûreté générale and Comité de salut public.
He protested against proscription of the Girondins and was active in Thermidor régime. After the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire he supported Bonaparte. He was proscribed as a regicide and lived in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Debry returned to France in 1830.
Jean Debry coats were an item of men's fashion in England; the fashion had begun to date by 1799