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Amateur Voltaire meme captioned 'A rigorous reconstruction of a conversation between besties (sometime in 1794… before April)': Desmoulins says 'Maxime, we've been besties since school. Obviously I can print whatever deranged nonsense I like and you'll back me…. Right? … Right?' and Robespierre answers 'ummm….'
Robespierre, Desmoulins and the Trial of the Indulgents
Painting of the attack on the Tuileries on 10 August 1792: national guardsmen firing up a palace staircase strewn with the bodies of Swiss Guards in red coats.
Henri de La Rochejaquelein at the Tuileries
Quotation card set over a detail of a portrait of General Marceau: “You speak to me of my laurels… they would fill you with dread; they are steeped in the blood of men.”
Marceau: The Republican General Mourned by His Enemies
Meme captioned 'Rouen: a nice, peaceful town (Not an actual event)', pairing a labeled medieval illustration with modern speech bubbles: Robespierre insisting Rouen saw no Terror, and Joan of Arc replying, 'Yeah. Love that for me.'
The revolution in Rouen
Ink and marker drawing of a dying General Bonchamps half-reclining on a sheet, bare-chested, right arm raised, above the handwritten words 'Grâce aux prisonniers'
The pardon of Bonchamps
Meme-style illustration of a shabbily dressed Maximilien Robespierre in a Paris street, tagged "Broke Robespierre", with speech bubbles reading "Umm... I am really not sure why you made me wear rags..." and "...no... realy... I am no *cough* Danton *cough* and I live in a garret ... but I can afford clothes!"; caption band: "Robespierre: The poor man of the National Convention (1794)".
Robespierre: The poor man of the National Convention

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French Revolution Actors

Aiguillon (d’), Armand-DésiréAlbitte, Antoine-LouisAlquier, Charles-Jean-MarieAmar, Jean-PierreAubert du Bayet, Jean-Baptiste AnnibalAugereau, Charles Pierre FrançoisAutichamp (d’), Charles de Beaumont2Babeuf, François-NoëlBacharetie de Beaupuy, Armand MichelBailly, Jean-SylvainBarbaroux, Charles Jean MarieBarère, BertrandBarnave, AntoineBarras, PaulBeauharnais (de), AlexandreBeauharnais (de), JoséphineBernadotte, Jean-Baptiste JulesBerruyer, Jean-FrançoisBertier de Sauvigny, Louis Bénigne FrançoisBesenval (de), Pierre VictorBillaud-Varenne, Jacques-NicolasBoissy d’Anglas, François-AntoineBonaparte, LucienBonaparte, Napoléon1Bonchamps (de), Charles2Bonchamps, Marie Renée Marguerite de Scépeaux, marquise de1Bordereau, Renée (Langevin)Bouillé (de), François Claude AmourBrissot, Jacques-PierreBrune, Guillaume Marie-AnneBrunswick (of), Charles William FerdinandBulkeley, Céleste Julie Michèle Talour de La CartrieBuonarroti, FilippoBurke, EdmundBuzot, François-Nicolas-LéonardCadoudal, GeorgesCalonne (de), Charles AlexandreCambacérès, Jean-Jacques-RégisCambon, Pierre-JosephCanclaux, Jean-Baptiste Camille deCarnot, LazareCarrier, Jean-BaptisteCathelineau, JacquesCazalès, Jacques-Antoine-MarieChalbos, AlexisCharette (de), François AthanaseCharles X (comte d’Artois)Chaumette, Pierre-Gaspard1Chouan, JeanClavière, ÉtienneClermont-Tonnerre (de), StanislasCloots, AnacharsisCollot d’Herbois, Jean-MarieComte de La BouëreCondé (de), Louis-Joseph de BourbonCondorcet, Nicolas de CaritatConstant, BenjaminCorday, CharlotteCordellier-Delanoüe, Étienne Jean-FrançoisCouëtus, Jean-Baptiste deCouthon, GeorgesCustine (de), Adam-Philipped’Elbée, MauriceDanton, Georges1Daunou, Pierre Claude FrançoisDavid, Jacques-LouisDesaix, Louis Charles AntoineDesmoulins, Camille2Desmoulins, Lucile1Dessalines, Jean-JacquesDonnissan, Guy Joseph deDrouet, Jean-BaptisteDubois-Crancé, Edmond-Louis-AlexisDucos, RogerDugommier, Jacques CoquilleDumas, Thomas-AlexandreDumouriez, Charles-FrançoisDuplay, ÉléonoreDuport, AdrienÉprémesnil (d’), Jean-Jacques DuvalFabre d’Églantine, Philippe-François-Nazaire1Fauchet, Claude FrançoisFéraud, Jean BertrandFersen (von), Hans AxelFleuriot de La Freulière, Jacques-NicolasForestier, HenriFouché, JosephFoullon de Doué, Joseph FrançoisFouquier-Tinville, Antoine QuentinFrancis IIFrançois de Neufchâteau, Nicolas-LouisFrederick William IIFréron, Louis-Marie-StanislasGensonné, ArmandGobel, Jean-Baptiste-JosephGohier, Louis-JérômeGontaut-Biron, Armand Louis deGouges (de), OlympeGrégoire, Henri1Grignon, LouisGuadet, Marguerite-ÉlieHanriot, FrançoisHaxo, NicolasHébert, Jacques RenéHédouville, Gabriel Marie Joseph d'Hérault de Séchelles, Marie-Jean1Hoche, Louis LazareIsnard, MaximinJoly, Jean-BaptisteJourdan, Jean-Baptiste1Jullien, RosalieKellermann, François ChristopheKléber, Jean-Baptiste1La Bouëre, Antoinette-Charlotte Le Duc, comtesse deLa Fayette (de), Gilbert du MotierLa Révellière-Lépeaux, Louis-MarieLa Roche Saint-André, Louis-Marie deLa Rochefoucauld, Marie-Adélaïde de La Touche-Limouzinière, comtesse deLa Rochejaquelein, Marie-Louise-Victoire de Donnissan deLacombe, ClaireLakanal, JosephLamballe, Marie-Thérèse-Louise de Savoie-Carignan, princesse deLameth, Alexandre-Théodore-VictorLameth, Charles-Malo-FrançoisLameth, ThéodoreLanjuinais, Jean-DenisLavoisier, Antoine LaurentLe Bas, Élisabeth DuplayLe Bas, PhilippeLe Bon, JosephLe Chapelier, Isaac-René-GuyLe Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, Louis-MichelLéchelle, JeanLéon, PaulineLeopold IILescure (de), Louis-Marie2Lindet, RobertLoménie de Brienne, Étienne CharlesLouis XVI1Louis XVIILouis XVIII (comte de Provence)1Louverture, ToussaintLouvet de Couvray, Jean-BaptisteLucas de La Championnière, Pierre-SuzanneLyrot de La Patouillère, François deMadame ÉlisabethMaillard, Stanislas-MarieMalesherbes (de), Chrétien-Guillaume de LamoignonMalouet, Pierre VictorMarat, Jean-PaulMarcé, Louis Henri François deMarceau, François Séverin1Maria Carolina of AustriaMarie Antoinette1Marigny, Gaspard de Bernard deMasséna, AndréMaury, Jean-SiffreinMerlin (de Thionville), Antoine-ChristopheMerlin de Douai, Philippe-AntoineMirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel RiquetiMomoro, Antoine-FrançoisMonge, GaspardMoreau, Jean Victor MarieMoulin, Jean-François-AugusteMounier, Jean JosephNecker, JacquesNelson, HoratioNoailles (de), Louis Marc AntoineOrléans (d’), Louis-Philippe-JosephPache, Jean-NicolasPaine, ThomasPétion, JérômePichegru, Jean-CharlesPierre Philippeaux1Pitt, WilliamPius VIPoirier de Beauvais, BertrandPrieur (de la Côte d'Or), Claude-AntoinePrieur (de la Marne), Jean-LouisPuisaye (de), JosephQuétineau, PierreRabaut Saint-Étienne, Jean-PaulReubell, Jean-FrançoisRipault de La Cathelinière, Louis-FrançoisRobespierre, Augustin1Robespierre, Charlotte1Robespierre, Maximilien5Rochejaquelein (de la), AugusteRochejaquelein (de la), Henri1Rochejaquelein (de la), LouisRoederer, Pierre-LouisRoland, Jean-MarieRoland, ManonRomme, GilbertRonsin, Charles PhilippeRossignol, Jean AntoineRouget de Lisle, Claude-JosephRoux, JacquesRoyrand, Charles Aimé deSaint-André, JeanbonSaint-Just, Louis Antoine3Santerre, Antoine JosephSapinaud de Boishuguet, Jeanne-Michelle-Ambroise Talour de La Cartrie deSapinaud de La Rairie, CharlesSapinaud de La Verrie, LouisScépeaux de Bois-Guignot, Marie Paul deSieyès, Emmanuel-JosephSonthonax, Léger-FélicitéStaël (de), GermaineStofflet, Jean-NicolasSuzannet, Pierre Constant deTalleyrand-Périgord, Charles-MauriceTallien, Jean-LambertTalmont (Prince de), Antoine-Philippe de La TrémoilleThéroigne de Méricourt, Anne-JosèpheThouret, Jacques-GuillaumeThuriot, Jacques-AlexisTravot, Jean-PierreTreilhard, Jean-BaptisteTuncq, AugustinTurreau, Louis MarieVadier, Marc-Guillaume AlexisVergniaud, Pierre-VicturnienVimeux, Louis AntoineVincent, François-NicolasWestermann, François-Joseph

What Military Experience Did Saint-Just Have?

Saint-Just had no formal military training and had never served in the regular army before 1793. His military experience began with the National Guard at Blérancourt, but his most important role came later as a representative on mission to the armies of the Rhine and the North.