Editing Bertrand Barère (section)

==Escape from prison==
When Barère learned about this, his cousin, Hector Barère, and two other people helped him escape prison. Although Barère was reluctant to escape, his friends believed that he should leave at the earliest opportunity.

According to his own later memoirs, the original plan was to escape over the garden walls or from the dormitory with the help of a long rope-ladder.<ref>[http://www.histoirepassion.eu/?1795-Saintes-Nuit-du-4-brumaire-an-IV-25-octobre-Barere-s-evade-de-l-Abbaye-aux 1795 – Saintes : Nuit du 4 brumaire an IV (25 octobre) : Barère s’évade de l’Abbaye aux Dames.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114052143/http://www.histoirepassion.eu/?1795-Saintes-Nuit-du-4-brumaire-an-IV-25-octobre-Barere-s-evade-de-l-Abbaye-aux |date=14 January 2021 }} (Memoires of Barère)</ref> This plan soon proved impossible as it was discovered that the garden was out of Barère's reach and that the dormitory was closed.

The escape plan was soon reconfigured, as it was decided that Barère would escape by the [[cloister]] and garden of the convent. Barère escaped on 4 Brumaire IV (26 October 1795), with the help also of a local man named Eutrope Vanderkand. He went to [[Bordeaux]], where he lived in hiding for several years.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|title=Memoirs of Bertrand Barère, chairman of the Committee of public safety during the revolution|last=Barère|first=B.|date=1896|publisher=London|url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.66297/2015.66297.Memoirs-Of-Bertrand-Barere-Vol-Iii_djvu.txt}}</ref>

In early 1798 (while still in hiding), he was elected to the [[French Directory|Directory]]'s [[Council of Five Hundred]] from his native [[Hautes-Pyrénées]], but he was not allowed to take his seat.

In April 1799, the Directory issued an order for his arrest, so he left Bordeaux and hid out in [[Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine]] near Paris.