Francois Louis Bourdon (died 1797), known as Bourdon de L'oise, French revolutionist, was procureur at the parlement of Paris.
He ardently embraced the revolutionary doctrines and took an active part in the insurrection of August 10, 1792. Representing the départment of the Oise in the Convention, he voted for the immediate death of the king. He accused the Girondists of relations with the court, then turned against Robespierre, who had him expelled from the Jacobin club for his conduct as commissioner of the Convention with the army of La Rochelle.
On 9 Thermidor he was one of the deputies delegated to aid Barras to repress the insurrection made by the commune of Paris in favour of Robespierre. Bourdon then became a violent reactionary, attacking the former members of the Mountain and supporting rigorous measures against the rioters of the 12th Germinal and the 1st Prairial of the year III.
In the council of Five Hundred, Bourdon belonged to the party of Clichyens, composed of disguised royalists, against whom the directors made the coup d'état of the 18th Fructidor. Bourdon was arrested and deported to French Guiana, where he died soon after his arrival.
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