Editing Bertrand Barère (section)

==Amnesty==
On 24 December 1799, [[Napoleon]] issued an amnesty for some politicians of both the right and the left, including Barère. Under the [[First French Empire|First Empire]], he was engaged in literary work. It was rumoured that he served as a confidential informant for Napoleon.<ref>Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, [https://books.google.com/books?id=i2JAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA192 Critical and historical essays.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105214022/https://books.google.com/books?id=i2JAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA192#v=onepage&q&f=false |date=5 January 2024 }} Appleton, 1866, p. 192</ref> Starting in 1803, he published an anti-British magazine, ''Le Mémorial anti-britannique'', subsidized by the government. This publication continued until 1807.

In February 1814, he moved back to his native region of France.

He became a member of the [[Chamber of Deputies of France|Chamber of Deputies]] during the [[Hundred Days]] on 1815.

When the final [[Bourbon Restoration in France|restoration of the Bourbons]] took place on 8 July 1815, he was banished from France for life "as a [[regicide]]". Barère then withdrew to Brussels, where he lived until 1830.<ref name="Lee 1902, p.151">Lee, 1902, p. 151</ref>

He returned to France and served [[Louis Philippe]] under the [[July Monarchy]] until his death on 13 January 1841. The last surviving member of the revolutionary [[Committee of Public Safety]], his memoirs were published posthumously in four volumes by [[Hippolyte Carnot]] in 1842<ref>[https://archive.org/details/mmoiresdebbarre01anggoog/page/n9/mode/2up?view=theater ''Mémoires de B. Barère'']</ref> and reviewed for English readers at exhaustive length (80 pages) by [[Thomas Babington Macaulay]].<ref>[[Edinburgh Review]] (April 1844).</ref>

An English translation was published in 1896: 
* [https://archive.org/details/memoirsb01baruoft/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater Vol I]
* [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156809 Vol II]
* [https://archive.org/details/memoirsvinch03baruoft/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater Vol III]
* [https://archive.org/details/memoirsvinch04baruoft/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater Vol IV]