Grégoire Jagot

Grégoire Marie Jagot (21 May 1750, Nantua, France – 22 January 1838, Toul, France) was a French commissioner and justice of the peace in the times of French revolution.

Life Grégoire Marie Jagot was born on 21 May 1750 in Nantua. In the beginning of French revolution Jagot worked as a justice of the peace in Nantua. On 1 September 1791, he was elected as a deputy of Ain in the National Legislative Assembly where he served for one year. The same day they wrote the second letter, clarifying the first collective letter. In the second letter, the representatives declared their clear preference for the death sentence for Louis XVI.

After France occupied Monaco in 1793, Jagot was one of those who governed Monaco.

Jagot and Grégoire urged local people of Alpes-Maritimes department to attend patriotic festivities on the occasion of annexation in order to strengthen the communal spirit and public opinion of new citizens of the Republic.

Jagot became a member of the division committee and the general safety committee where he developed a police activity in consultation with Amar and Vadier. He is widely cited by those he employed to create lists of alleged prison conspirators. The role of Jagot is very important in the methodical organization which led hundreds of people to the scaffold.

Jagot was accused of having removed documents relating to terrorists from the department of Ain when he was a member of the general security committee.