Louis-Charles-César Maupassant

Louis-Charles-César Maupassant, born  25 April 1750   in Saumur,died  11 March 1793  in Machecoul ( Lower Loire ), a victim of the First Massacre of Machecoul, was a merchant, farmer and deputy to the French National Convention.

From a bourgeois family in Nort, he was a small landholder, and churchwarden of the parish at the beginning of the French Revolution. Subsequently, he was elected 15 April 1789 as an alternate member of the Seneschal of Nantes to the Estates General and in March 1790, elected to the governing board of the Lower Loire department. He then sat on Constituent Assembly on September 5, replacing the lawyer Pellerin, who had resigned. Sitting among the majority, he opposed the release of Necker on September 11 and against the motion against the refractory priests the 17 July 1791. Day of the shooting of Champ de Mars. On September 3, the Assembly completed the drafting of the constitution , and a deputation of sixty members is appointed by the President to present the text to the king, the same evening. Maupassant was included in this group as "one who would hold the king to his word.

The 10 September 1791,  he was elected 2nd alternate member for Lower Loire to the Legislative Assembly and member of the Executive Department. In  March 1793  he was sent to Machecoul by the Department of Management to organize the mass uprising, he was killed by a panic in the first attack of the village by the rebel peasants.