Guillotined!
Judith Hollier from Melbourne wrote:-
"At the Paris Conciergerie where French Revolution prisoners were held we found the name Claude Hollier, Vicar; in the list of 2780 people who died at the guillotine. Apparently where was more about him in the Arc de Triomphe museum but we didn't have time to visit."
Glynis Pike also alerted me to this vicar in 2004:-
"My husband and I went to Paris 11 years ago and in a room above the Arc de Triomphe saw a memorial to the Royal Family of France and their close friends who were executed in the French revolution amongst them was a man called Claude Hollier (vicar) in the late 18th centurary it would be interesting to find out about his life."
I wonder what his crime was? Or was he just too friendly with the Royal Family?
posted by Peter Walker @ 7:31 am
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I've found some informations about Claude Hollier :
Episcopal Vicar of Bordeaux, remaining there, sentenced to death, January 15, 1794, by the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris, as a conspirator.
But all priests who continued to exercise their functions during the Revolution could have been considered as conspirators...
(You can get a few more informations about his life, but only in french, in the book "Le Musée de Bordeaux et la musique: 1783-1793", page 91).
Guillaume HOLLIER
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