Chalier, Joseph

(1747-1793)

   political figure

   Born in Beaulard, Piedmont, Joseph Chalier, after adopting the various ideals of the revolution of 1789, became one of the principal representatives of the montagnard Party of lyon and a member of that city's governing Commune. There, he was condemned to death and decapitated after the city's successful royalist and federalist insurrection (July 17, 1793). Consequently, like le peletier de saint-fargeau and jean-Paul marat, Chalier became one of the "divinities" of the French revolutionary pantheon.