Vergniaud

(vārn-ye-o',) PIERRE VICTURNIEN, a leading orator among the French Girondists, was B. at Limoges in 1759. He became a member of the Legislative A embly in 1791, and was president of the Convention which pronounced sentence of death upon the king, in 1793. In the same year he himself suffered by the guillotine, being one of the twenty-two members of his party condemned at the instance of the Revolutionary Tribunal. [s. 934]