François-Joseph Gamon

François-Joseph Gamon (6 April 1767 Antraigues-sur-Volane - 1 November 1832, Antraigues-sur-Volane) was a French politician, lawyer and poet.

Born into a Protestant family from Savoie, François-Joseph Gamon was the son of Joseph Gamon and Anne Bosc. He studied law in Toulouse, then became a lawyer in the same city. He acquired a local fame as a result of his flamboyant rhetoric in court.

French Revolution In 1791 Gamon was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the department of Ardèche as the substitute Valadier. After Valadier's resignation, Gamon replaced him in the Assembly from 3 January 1792. His made no particular mark and generally voted with the moderate deputies. He was re-elected on 5 September 1792 to the National Convention with 319 out of 392 votes, and aligned himself more clearly with the Girondins. At the trial of Louis XVI, he asked that the accused be heard before the promulgation of the decree of accusation against him, and vote for death with conditions. He was one of deputies most hostile to the Montagnards and extremists of the Paris Commune. On 10 March 1793 he mounted the tribune of the Convention to denounce plots organized against the Girondins and reproached the Montagnards for filling the stands of the Assembly with their supporters. He thus attracted the hatred of Jean-Paul Marat. and was in contact with the royalist agent de Launay.

Gamon then served on the Court of cassation, then judge at the Court of Appeal of Nîmes after the Coup of 18 Brumaire.

Literary works In 1795 he published three tragedies - Cleopâtre (1788), Charlotte Corday (1795) and Beaurepaire (1806), while two others, Tibère and Adonais, remained unpublished. In 1817 he published Les sept premiers livres du Télémaque, a verse rendition of part of the famous novel Les Aventures de Télémaque by François Fénelon.

He died in his native town in 1832 at the age of 65.