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Born June 10, 1746 • France
Died May 7, 1795 (aged 48) • Paris • France
Role In French Revolution
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
French revolutionary
Cassin, René
René Cassin
French jurist
François Hotman
French jurist
Philippe-Antoine, Count Merlin
French jurist
Jean-Baptiste Carrier, lithograph by F.-S. Delpech after a portrait by J.-B. Belliard
Jean-Baptiste Carrier
French revolutionary
Labori
Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori
French lawyer
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French author
Owen Josephus Roberts
Owen Josephus Roberts
United States jurist
Ken Starr
Ken Starr
American lawyer
Patrick Fitzgerald
American lawyer
Robert H. Jackson
Robert H. Jackson
United States jurist
Andrey Vyshinsky
Andrey Vyshinsky
Soviet statesman
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, president of Italy (1992–99).
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
president of Italy
Bristow
Benjamin Helm Bristow
United States official
William Moody
William Moody
United States jurist
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Talleyrand
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent
French statesman and diplomat
Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Jacques-Louis David
French painter
Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti
Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
French politician and orator
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian and political writer