Nationality French | ||
Known for Counsellor to the parliament of Provence Died 15 February 1794, Marseille, France | ||
Jean-François-Marie d'Arquier de Barbegal (1761-1794), also known as de Baumelles, parliamentarian from Aix in the 18th century, was involved in the federalist movement of 1793 during the French Revolution.
Biography
Jean-François-Marie Arquier was born in La Ciotat on June 17, 1761. He is the son of François, Sieur de Barbegal, Lord of Baumelles, and Françoise Richard. He became advisor to the Parliament in Aix on June 28, 1782. Later he was initiated into a Masonic lodge in Aix, but remained there only two years, until 1786. On the eve of the French Revolution, he attended meetings of the nobility for the bailliage of Aix in 1789.
Arquier embraced the federalist cause before the Reign of Terror, then was sentenced to death by the Military Commission in Marseille on 26 Pluviose Year II (February 14, 1794).
He was guillotined the following day, 27 Pluviose Year II (15 February 1794), in Marseille.