On 17 July 1793 Lux witnessed the execution of the Girondist Charlotte Corday, who had assassinated the radical agitator Jean-Paul Marat.
In 1793 he was a representative on mission surveying the ports of Lorient and Dunkirk, but he was arrested in Normandy upon the fall of the Girondists (June 1793) by the rebel authorities of Caen, and only released in July 1793 after the defeat of their forces at Vernon.
Initially close to the Girondists, Lindet was very hostile to King Louis XVI, provided a Rapport sur les crimes imputés à Louis Capet (December 20, 1792) – a report of the king's alleged crimes – and voted for the king's execution without appeal.
His brother Joseph Servan de Gerbey (1741-1808) was war minister in the Girondist ministry of 1792.
Gohier was Minister of Justice from March 1793 to April 1794, overseeing the arrest of Girondists, and, a member of the Council of Five Hundred, he succeeded Jean Baptiste Treilhard in the French Directory (June 1799), where he represented the Republican view in front of growing Royalist opposition.
Jean-Paul Marat was murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a Girondist sympathizer, with a poignard during the French Revolution.