Jean-Baptiste Lacoste
Jean-Baptiste Lacoste was a lawyer in Mauriac in department of the Cantal, before the French Revolution.
Under the Revolution
In 1789, he was Justice of the Peace. In 1792, he was elected to the Convention for the department of the Cantal.In 1792-93, he was Commissioner to the Army of the Moselle, under Pichegru.
After 9 Thermidor, however, he helped release Général Etienne de la Bruyère, imprisoned in Strasbourg for alleged treason, obtaining from the Committee of Public Safety, on 22 Thermidor a decree thus conceived:
The young representative announced to him this good news by letter:
In Alsace, he created a revolutionary commission which was chaired by Euloge Schneider. That was worth a long captivity for him, which finishes thanks to the amnesty of the 3 brumaire, year IV,.