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| 1727 births | |
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| people from alsace | |
| people executed by guillotine during the french revolution | |
| archbishops of paris | |
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Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel ( September 1 , 1727 – April 12 , 1794 ), French cleric and Politician , was born at Thann in Alsace . He studied Theology in the German College at Rome , and then became successively a member of the chapter of Porrentruy, bishop ''in partibus'' of Lydda , and finally suffragan of Basel for that part of the diocese situated in French territory. His political life began when he was elected deputy to the States-general of 1789 by the clergy of the Bailliage of Huningue . The turning-point of his life was his action in taking the oath of the Civil Constitution Of The Clergy ( January 3 , 1791 ); in favour of which he had declared himself since May 5 , 1790 . The civil constitution of the clergy gave the appointment of priests to the electoral assemblies, and since taking the oath Gobel had become so popular that he was elected bishop in several dioceses. He chose Paris , and in spite of the difficulties which he had to encounter before he could enter into possession, was consecrated on March 27 , 1791 by eight bishops, including Talleyrand . On November 8 , 1792 , Gobel was appointed administrator of Paris. He was careful to flatter the politicians by professing anti-clerical opinions, declaring himself, among other things, opposed to the celibacy of the clergy; and on the 17th Brumaire In The Year II ( November 7 , 1793 ), became before the bar of the Convention, and, in a famous scene, resigned his episcopal functions, proclaiming that he did so for love of the people, and through respect for their wishes. The followers of Hébert , who were then pursuing their anti-Christian policy, claimed Gobel as one of themselves; while, on the other hand, Robespierre looked upon him as an atheist, though Apostasy cannot strictly speaking be laid to the charge of the ex-bishop, nor did he ever make any actual profession of Atheism . Robespierre, however, found him an obstacle to his religious schemes, and involved him in the fate of the Hébertists. Gobel was condemned to death with Chaumette , Hébert and Anacharsis Cloots , and was Guillotine d on the 12th of April 1794. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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