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Charles-Gilbert Romme (26 March 1750 – 17 June 1795) was a French and who developed the French Republican Calendar.


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Charles Gilbert Romme was born in , Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne region of France, where he received an education in medicine and mathematics. After spending five years in , he went to to become the tutor of Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov. He returned to Paris in 1788 and entered political life.

He was a member of the Masonic lodge, Les Neuf Sœurs.

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Elected on 10 September 1791 to the Legislative Assembly, Romme aligned himself with the , but after his election to the National Convention on 6 September 1792, he sided with the .

He voted in favour of the death sentence for . Later, in the events leading up to the Reign of Terror, he was arrested by Girondist supporters and was imprisoned in for two months.

During his tenure in National Convention, Romme served in the ( Comité de l’instruction Publique), where he presented his report on the republican calendar on 17 September 1793 and then developed an agricultural almanac based on the new calendar. Aware of their military importance, he was also an early supporter of . He served as president of the Convention from 21 November to 6 December 1793.

Because he was on an assignment to organise gun production for the navy, he had no hand in the coup of 9 Thermidor an II (27 July 1794), which resulted in the fall of the (and ultimately led to the return of the Girondists).

When rioting , demanding bread and the Jacobin constitution, violently occupied the Convention on 1 an III (20 May 1795), Romme supported their demands. This insurrection was quickly put down however, and he and other Montagnards were arrested. While waiting for their trial, the defendants agreed to commit suicide in case of a death sentence.

On 29 Prairial (17 June), Paris, France, Romme and five others were sentenced to the . With a knife hidden by Jean-Marie Goujon, he stabbed himself repeatedly while on the staircase leading from the courtroom, and died - his last words are reported to have been "I die for the republic".

In Romme le Montagnard (1833), Marc de Vissac described Romme as a small, awkward and clumsy man with an ill complexion and a dull orator but also as possessing a pleasant and instructive style of conversation.


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