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Although of a noble family, Barras joined the Jacobins in the French Revolution and was a member of the Convention. He participated in reprisals against counterrevolutionaries in Toulon after the recapture of the city from the British, and having turned against the revolutionary dictator Robespierre, Barras was a leader of the coup against him. In 1795, he suppressed a royalist uprising by turning the troops over to a young officer in whose marriage he later played a role; who was this officer?