What is Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve?
{{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = |name = Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve |honorific-suffix = |image =Jérôme Petion de Villeneuve.jpg |caption =Portrait by [[Jean-Urbain Guérin]] | office = 1st [[List of Presidents of the National Convention|President of the National Convention]] | term_start = 20 September 1792 | term_end = 4 October 1792 | predecessor = [[Louis XVI]] (King of France) | successor = [[Jean-François Delacroix]] |order2 = |title2 = 2nd [[List of mayors of Paris|Mayor of Paris]] | nationality = French |term_start2 = 18 November 1791 |term_end2 = 15 October 1792 |deputy2 = |governor2 = |predecessor2 = [[Jean Sylvain Bailly]] |successor2 = [[Philibert Borie]] (temporary mayor) |constituency2 = |birth_date = {{birth date|1756|1|3|df=yes}} |birth_place = [[Chartres]], Eure-et-Loir, France |death_date = {{death date and age|1794|6|18|1756|1|3|df=yes}} |death_place = [[Saint-Magne-de-Castillon]], near [[Saint-Émilion]], Gironde, France |death_cause = [[Suicide]] |restingplace = |restingplacecoordinates = |birthname = |party = [[Girondist]] |spouse = |relations = |children = |residence = |alma_mater = |occupation = Writer, politician |profession = |religion = |signature = Signatur Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve.PNG |signature_alt= |website = |footnotes = }} '''Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve''' (3 January 1756 – 18 June 1794) was a French [[writer]] and [[politician]] who served as the second [[List of mayors of Paris|mayor of Paris,]] from 1791 to 1792, and the first regular [[List of Presidents of the National Convention|president of the National Convention]] in 1792. During the [[French Revolution]], he was associated with the moderate Girondins, and voted against the immediate [[execution of Louis XVI]] at the king's trial in January 1793, though he supported a suspended sen