Amar, J. P. Andre, a French revolutionist, born in Grenoble about 1750, died in Paris in 1816. Elected in 1702 to the convention for the department of Isere, he voted for the execution of Louis XVI. within 24 hours, and for the rejection of the appeal to the people. Being sent as a commissary to his own department, he showed himself a merciless persecutor of his neighbors, systematically denounced the Girondists on every occasion, and contributed his part to the fall of the Dantonists, then called moderes, and the Hebertists, stigmatized as anarchists. He appeared to favor Robespierre's system, but materially contributed to his defeat before the convention. When in 1795 Collot d'Herbois, Billaud-Va-rennes, and Barrere were condemned to be transported, he presented himself as their advocate. The consequence of this act was his confinement in the fortress of Ham. He regained his liberty by the decree of amnesty rendered by the convention on its final adjournment. By order of the directory, he was subsequently arrested as an accomplice in the conspiracy of Drouet and Baboeuf, but released for want of legal testimony.

However, he was exiled from Paris during Napoleon's reign, and spent the rest of his life in obscurity.