Jean, Baron de Batz
| Jean Pierre de Batz, Baron de Sainte-Croix | |
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Jean Pierre de Batz
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| Born | January 26, 1754 |
| Died | January 10, 1822 (aged 67) |
| Occupation | French royalist and businessman |
Jean Pierre de Batz, Baron de Sainte-Croix, known as the Baron de Batz or de Bance, (January 26, 1754– January 10, 1822), was a French royalist and businessman. He was born in Goutz-les-Tartas (Gers), and died in Chadieu, near Vic-le-Comte (Puy-de-Dôme).
Under the Constituent Assembly, Batz's reputation as a financier got him elected to the liquidation committee, which was responsible for clearing public accounts. At the same time, he became a secret adviser to Louis XVI, in whose employ he received large payments for these services.
After the abolition of the monarchy in 1792 Baron de Batz became one of the leading members of the secret royalist movement in Paris. On January 21, 1793, Batz tried in vain to raise the crowd in boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle to save the king from execution. Going into partial hiding, he continued to speculate on national property and war supplies of war, attending to both leaders of the Paris Commune as conventional as Chabot, Basire, Julien de Toulouse or Delaunay d'Angers; or Swiss and German bankers, including Austrian banker Junius Frey and his brother, Brussels Proli; Gusman Spanish and Portuguese.
After the discovery of the case of the liquidation of the French East India Company, the high committee and the public security committee generally regarded as the leader of a vast conspiracy aimed at delivering the queen, corrupt deputies to pit against the revolutionary government and promote the Counter-revolution using the excesses of the ultra-revolutionaries, including dechristianization. Thus, on March 14, 1794, Hébertistes together with Clootz, Pereira and Proli, were guillotined. Then, on April 5, Danton and his friends were executed with Chabot, Basire, the abbot of Espagnac, Gusman, and the Frey brothers.
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