Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot

Jean-Baptiste Edmond Fleuriot-Lescot (1761 – 28 July 1794), also known as Lescot-Fleuriot, was an architect, sculptor, and revolutionary politician from the Austrian Netherlands. He briefly served as Mayor of Paris in 1794 during the most radical phase of the French Revolution, and was executed by guillotine alongside Maximilien Robespierre and his allies on 9 Thermidor Year II.

Biography

Early life and career Fleuriot-Lescot was born in Brussels in 1761, the son of Nicolas Fleuriot-Lescot, an officer of the University of Paris, and Erneste Ebherlinck. He worked as an architect and sculptor, and served the Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, directing peat operations in Liancourt (Oise) from 1785. He later settled in Paris, where he married Françoise Madeleine Belloir-Dutally in 1788.

In 1789, he participated in the Brabant Revolution against the reforms of Emperor Joseph II, before taking refuge in France.

The uprising collapsed quickly. That evening, the National Convention declared the mayor and the Commune's leadership outlaws. At 2 a.m. on 10 Thermidor, Fleuriot-Lescot was arrested with other officials at the Hôtel de Ville by forces loyal to the Convention under Léonard Bourdon.

He was tried the same day by the Revolutionary Tribunal, where Gilbert Lieudon prosecuted in place of Fouquier-Tinville, who recused himself due to personal ties. Fleuriot-Lescot was sentenced to death and executed with Robespierre, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Georges Couthon, and others.

Publications Réflexions générales sur le système employé par les intrigants, depuis 1789, pour entraver la marche de la liberté et sur les moyens de la faire triompher de tous ses ennemis (1792)