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Also Known As Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac
Born September 10, 1755 • Tarbes • France
Died January 13, 1841 (aged 85) • Tarbes • France
Title / Office Estates-General (1789-1789)
Political Affiliation Jacobin Club
Role In French Revolution
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
French revolutionary
Georges Danton
Georges Danton
French revolutionary leader
Barnave, Antoine
Antoine Barnave
French politician
Billaud-Varenne, engraving by F. Bonneville, late 18th century
Jean-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne
French lawyer
Collot d'Herbois, engraving by C. Minatelli, 18th century
Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois
French radical
Georges Couthon
French Jacobin leader
Alexandre, count de Lameth
French noble
Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles
Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles
French noble
André Jeanbon Saint-André
French clergyman
Prieur, Pierre-Louis
Pierre-Louis Prieur
French politician
Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti
Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
French politician and orator
Louis de Saint-Just
Louis de Saint-Just
French revolutionary
Lazare Carnot, lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, after an engraving by C.A. Forestier
Lazare Carnot
French military engineer
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, engraving by J.-A. Allais, 19th century.
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
French politician
Joseph Cambon, engraving by Jean-Baptiste Verite
Joseph Cambon
French minister
Jean-Baptiste-Robert Lindet
French revolutionary leader
Tallien, engraving by F. Bonneville, late 18th century
Jean-Lambert Tallien
French revolutionary
Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois
French military engineer
Adrien Duport
French magistrate
Marie-Joseph de Chénier, lithograph by François Le Villain, 19th century.
Marie-Joseph de Chénier
French author