François Chabot

François Chabot (1757 - 1794), French revolutionist, had been a Franciscan friar before the Revolution.

After the civil constitution of the clergy continued to act as constitutional priest, becoming grand vicar of Henri Grégoire, bishop of Blois. Them he was elected to the Legislative Assembly, sitting at the extreme left, and forming with Claude Bazire and Merlin de Thionville the Cordelier trio. Re-elected to the Convention he voted for the death of Louis XVI, and opposed the proposal to prosecute the authors of the massacre of September, because among them there are heroes of Jemmapes.

Some of his sayings are well known, such as that "Christ was the first sans-culotte." Compromised in the falsification of a decree suppressing the East India Company and in a plot to bribe certain members of the Convention, especially Fabre d'Églantine and Claude Bazire, he was arrested, brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal, and was condemned and executed at the same time as the Dantonists, who protested against being associated with such a fripon.