Georges François Marie GABRIEL (1775-1846), d’après. Portrait... Lot 38

Georges François Marie GABRIEL (1775-1846), d’après. Portrait of Stanislas-Marie Maillard called "Tape-Dur" (Gournay-en-Bray, 1763-Paris, 1794). Sanguine on paper, annotated at the bottom "Maillard P(résiden)t du Tribunal Révolutionnaire à l'Abbaye". Stains. From the sketch kept in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris, inv. D5438. In a blackened wooden frame. H. 16,5 x W. 13,5 cm (at sight). History Stanislas-Marie Maillard took part in the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and was among those who arrested the governor of Launay. After this exploit, he gave himself the title of "captain of the Bastille volunteers" and took an active part in all the revolutionary days. He was also one of the leaders of the days of October 5 and 6, 1789 during the "Women's March" on Versailles. Improvising himself as the spokesman of the crowd coming from Paris, he went up to the rostrum of the Constituent Assembly to read the following declaration: "We are in Versailles to ask for bread and at the same time to punish the bodyguards who insulted the patriotic cockade." The demonstrators expressed themselves more violently, in particular against the queen on whom the most appalling imprecations were poured. Appointed captain of the National Guard in 1790, he signed, on July 17, 1791, the petition of the Champ-de-Mars which demanded the creation of a Republic. Posterity will know him as the "great judge of the Abbey", or the "chief of the massacres". President of an improvised tribunal at the Abbey Prison, he released the Marquis Charles François de Virot de Sombreuil, saved by his daughter Marie-Maurille, to whom legend has conferred the title of heroine with a glass of blood. He was arrested twice during the Terror as being linked to the "Hébertistes" and died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty.