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Born December 22, 1755 • France
Died July 28, 1794 (aged 38) • Paris • France
Title / Office National Convention (1792-1794) • Legislative Assembly (1791-1792)
Political Affiliation Jacobin Club
Role In French Revolution
Georges Danton
Georges Danton
French revolutionary leader
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
French revolutionary
Bertrand Barère
French revolutionary
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
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
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
Marie-Joseph de Chénier, lithograph by François Le Villain, 19th century.
Marie-Joseph de Chénier
French author
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Jacques-Louis David
French painter
Fouché, engraving, 19th century
Joseph Fouché, duc d’Otrante
French statesman
Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, undated lithograph.
Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, vicomte de Barras
French revolutionary