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Barre (City in Washington co Vt)
a city in Washington co., Vt., on the Central Vermont and the Montpeller Montpelier and Wells River railroads, 6 miles S. E. of Montpelier. Barre received a city charter in 1894; and has a wide reputation as one of the most important seats of the granite industry in the United States. The city contains, besides granite quarries, several industrial plants connected therewith; several banks; a library; opera house; Goddard daily and weekly newspapers. Pop. Seminary; Spaulding High School; and tiers-état, weekly newspapers. (1910) 10,734; (1920) 10,008. tered into the garrison of Pondicherry.
On his return, he led a dissipated life and squandered his fortune. When the Revolution broke out he opposed the Court, had a seat in the tiers-état, while his brother sat with the nobility.
July 14, 1789, he took part in the attack upon the Bastille, and Aug. 10, 1792, upon the Tuileries. In 1792 he was elected a member of the National Convention, and voted for the unconditional death of Louis XVI. He was sent, in 1793, to the south of France, and commanded the left wing of the besieging army under Dugommier, and it was here that he first met Napoleon Bonaparte, then captain of artillery. Robespierre was no friend of his, and often wished to arrest him. Barras, knowing this, became one of the principal actors of the 9th Thermidor, and put himself at the head of the troops which surrounded Robespierre at the Hôtel de Ville. In 1794 he was named one of the Committee of Public Safety. In February, 1795, he was elected President of the Convention, and, in that capacity, declared Paris in a state of siege, when the Assembly was attacked by the populace. Afterward, when the Convention was assailed, Bonaparte, by Barras' advice, was appointed to command the artillery; and that general, on the 13th Vendémiaire (Oct. 5, 1795), decisively repressed the royalist movement. For his services, Barras was now named one of the Directory. Napoleon's coup d'état, on the