Jean Debry
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Jean-Antoine-Joseph de Bry, called Debry (25 November 1760 Vervins
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, Aisne
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 – 6 January 1834 Paris) was President of the National Convention
National Convention
During the French Revolution, the National Convention or Convention, in France, comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly which sat from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 . It held executive power in France during the first years of the French First Republic...

 (21 March 1793 – 4 April 1793), famous for a slogan
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 La patrie est en danger (The Fatherland is in danger) he proposed.http://www.diagnopsy.com/Revolution/Rev_041.htm.

Debry was on 8 September 1791 elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly
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During the French Revolution, the Legislative Assembly was the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to September 1792. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention.The Legislative...

 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 (22 January 1793 – 16 June 1793) and Comité de salut public.

He protested against proscription of the Girondins and was active in Thermidor
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 régime. After the coup d'etat
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 of 18 Brumaire
18 Brumaire
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 he supported Bonaparte
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. He was proscribed as a regicide (1816) and lived in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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. 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

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