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French Revolution Actors

Aiguillon (d’), Armand-Désiré
Albitte, Antoine-Louis
Alquier, Charles-Jean-Marie
Amar, Jean-Pierre
Aubert du Bayet, Jean-Baptiste Annibal
Augereau, Charles Pierre François
Autichamp (d’), Charles de Beaumont
Babeuf, François-Noël
Bacharetie de Beaupuy, Armand Michel
Bailly, Jean-Sylvain
Barbaroux, Charles Jean Marie
Barère, Bertrand
Barnave, Antoine
Barras, Paul
Beauharnais (de), Alexandre
Bernadotte, Jean-Baptiste Jules
Berruyer, Jean-François
Bertier de Sauvigny, Louis Bénigne François
Besenval (de), Pierre Victor
Billaud-Varenne, Jacques-Nicolas
Boissy d’Anglas, François-Antoine
Bonaparte, Lucien
Bonchamps (de), Charles
Bonchamps, Marie Renée Marguerite de Scépeaux, marquise de
Bordereau, Renée (Langevin)
Bouillé (de), François Claude Amour
Brissot, Jacques-Pierre
Brune, Guillaume Marie-Anne
Brunswick (of), Charles William Ferdinand
Bulkeley, Céleste Julie Michèle Talour de La Cartrie
Buonarroti, Filippo
Burke, Edmund
Buzot, François-Nicolas-Léonard
Cadoudal, Georges
Calonne (de), Charles Alexandre
Cambacérès, Jean-Jacques-Régis
Cambon, Pierre-Joseph
Canclaux, Jean-Baptiste Camille de
Carnot, Lazare
Carrier, Jean-Baptiste
Cathelineau, Jacques
Cazalès, Jacques-Antoine-Marie
Chalbos, Alexis
Charette (de), François Athanase
Charles X (comte d’Artois)
Chaumette, Pierre-Gaspard
Chouan, Jean
Clavière, Étienne
Cloots, Anacharsis
Collot d’Herbois, Jean-Marie
Condorcet, Nicolas de Caritat
Constant, Benjamin
Corday, Charlotte
Cordellier-Delanoüe, Étienne Jean-François
Couëtus, Jean-Baptiste de
Couthon, Georges
Custine (de), Adam-Philippe
d’Elbée, Maurice
Danton, Georges
Daunou, Pierre Claude François
David, Jacques-Louis
Desaix, Louis Charles Antoine
Desmoulins, Anne-Lucile-Philippe Laridon-Duplessis
Desmoulins, Camille
Donnissan, Guy Joseph de
Drouet, Jean-Baptiste
Dubois-Crancé, Edmond-Louis-Alexis
Ducos, Roger
Dumas, Thomas-Alexandre
Dumouriez, Charles-François
Duport, Adrien
Éprémesnil (d’), Jean-Jacques Duval
Fabre d’Églantine, Philippe-François-Nazaire
Fauchet, Claude François
Féraud, Jean Bertrand
Fersen (von), Hans Axel
Fleuriot de La Freulière, Jacques-Nicolas
Forestier, Henri
Fouché, Joseph
Foullon de Doué, Joseph François
Fouquier-Tinville, Antoine Quentin
Francis II
François de Neufchâteau, Nicolas-Louis
Frederick William II
Fréron, Louis-Marie-Stanislas
Gensonné, Armand
Gohier, Louis-Jérôme
Gontaut-Biron, Armand Louis de
Gouges (de), Olympe
Grégoire, Henri
Grignon, Louis
Guadet, Marguerite-Élie
Hanriot, François
Haxo, Nicolas
Hébert, Jacques René
Hédouville, Gabriel Marie Joseph d'
Hérault de Séchelles, Marie-Jean
Hoche, Louis Lazare
Isnard, Maximin
Joly, Jean-Baptiste
Jourdan, Jean-Baptiste
Jullien, Rosalie
Kellermann, François Christophe
Kléber, Jean-Baptiste
La Bouëre, Antoinette-Charlotte Le Duc, comtesse de
La Bouëre, Jacques de
La Fayette (de), Gilbert du Motier
La Révellière-Lépeaux, Louis-Marie
La Roche Saint-André, Louis-Marie de
La Rochefoucauld, Marie-Adélaïde de La Touche-Limouzinière, comtesse de
La Rochejaquelein, Marie-Louise-Victoire de Donnissan de
Lacombe, Claire
Lakanal, Joseph
Lameth, Alexandre-Théodore-Victor
Lameth, Charles-Malo-François
Lameth, Théodore
Lanjuinais, Jean-Denis
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Le Bas, Élisabeth Duplay
Le Bas, Philippe
Le Chapelier, Isaac-René-Guy
Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, Louis-Michel
Léchelle, Jean
Léon, Pauline
Leopold II
Lescure (de), Louis-Marie
Lindet, Robert
Loménie de Brienne, Étienne Charles
Louis XVI
Louis XVII
Louis XVIII (comte de Provence)
Louverture, Toussaint
Louvet de Couvray, Jean-Baptiste
Lucas de La Championnière, Pierre-Suzanne
Lyrot de La Patouillère, François de
Madame Élisabeth
Maillard, Stanislas-Marie
Malesherbes (de), Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon
Malouet, Pierre Victor
Marat, Jean-Paul
Marcé, Louis Henri François de
Marceau, François Séverin
Maria Carolina of Austria
Marie Antoinette
Marigny, Gaspard de Bernard de
Masséna, André
Merlin (de Thionville), Antoine-Christophe
Merlin de Douai, Philippe-Antoine
Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti
Momoro, Antoine-François
Moreau, Jean Victor Marie
Moulin, Jean-François-Auguste
Mounier, Jean Joseph
Necker, Jacques
Nelson, Horatio
Noailles (de), Louis Marc Antoine
Orléans (d’), Louis-Philippe-Joseph
Paine, Thomas
Pétion, Jérôme
Pichegru, Jean-Charles
Pierre Philippeaux
Pitt, William
Pius VI
Poirier de Beauvais, Bertrand
Prieur (de la Côte d'Or), Claude-Antoine
Prieur (de la Marne), Jean-Louis
Quétineau, Pierre
Rabaut Saint-Étienne, Jean-Paul
Reubell, Jean-François
Ripault de La Cathelinière, Louis-François
Robespierre, Charlotte de
Robespierre, Maximilien
Rochejaquelein (de la), Henri
Roland, Jean-Marie
Roland, Manon
Romme, Gilbert
Ronsin, Charles Philippe
Rossignol, Jean Antoine
Roux, Jacques
Royrand, Charles Aimé de
Saint-André, Jeanbon
Saint-Just, Louis Antoine
Santerre, Antoine Joseph
Sapinaud de Boishuguet, Jeanne-Michelle-Ambroise Talour de La Cartrie de
Sapinaud de La Rairie, Charles
Sapinaud de La Verrie, Louis
Scépeaux de Bois-Guignot, Marie Paul de
Sieyès, Emmanuel-Joseph
Sonthonax, Léger-Félicité
Staël (de), Germaine
Stofflet, Jean-Nicolas
Suzannet, Pierre Constant de
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice
Tallien, Jean-Lambert
Talmont (Prince de), Antoine-Philippe de La Trémoille
Thuriot, Jacques-Alexis
Travot, Jean-Pierre
Treilhard, Jean-Baptiste
Tuncq, Augustin
Turreau, Louis Marie
Vadier, Marc-Guillaume Alexis
Vergniaud, Pierre-Victurnien
Vimeux, Louis Antoine
Vincent, François-Nicolas
Westermann, François-Joseph
Portrait of Robespierre, Maximilien
Maximilien-François-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre
Date of Birth
May 6, 1758
Date of Death
July 28, 1794
About
A lawyer from Arras elected to represent the Third Estate of Artois in 1789, Robespierre emerged in the Constituent Assembly as a persistent advocate of civil and political equality. He opposed property qualifications for citizenship, defended civic rights for Jews and free men of colour, argued against capital punishment and later opposed the decision to go to war in 1792. His speeches in the Assembly and at the Jacobin Club brought him a national reputation for political consistency and made him one of the Revolution’s most influential public figures. Elected to the Convention for Paris, he sat with the Mountain, voted for the execution of Louis XVI and supported the removal of the leading Girondin deputies. He joined the Committee of Public Safety in July 1793 and took part in the collective direction and public defence of the revolutionary government. He supported measures intended to secure subsistence and extend political equality, but also defended emergency laws and prosecutions against those regarded as enemies of the Republic. Arrested after his opponents united against him on 9 Thermidor, he was guillotined the following day.

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