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Barnave

/ barnav /

noun

  1. BarnaveAntoine Pierre17611793MFrenchPOLITICS: revolutionary Antoine Pierre . 1761–93, French revolutionary. A prominent member of the National Assembly, he was executed for his royalist sympathies
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Survivors include his wife, the former Immacula Joseph; children from several relationships; and his sister, Katia Barnave, who confirmed the death.

They had been caught at Varennes, to be conducted back to Paris by Barnave and P�tion, deputies.

This man was the incarnation of the spirit of Slavery; he could have exclaimed, with Barnave, “Perish the colonies rather than a principle.”

On the other hand, the leaders of the Left, Barnave and the Lameths, felt that they had weakened the executive power too much.

They numbered about 160, and among them were some able men, such as Matthieu Dumas and Bigot de Pr�amenau, but they were 159 guided chiefly by persons outside the House, because incapable of re-election, Barnave, Duport and the Lameths.

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