5 May 1746 – A Timeline of the Revolution

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Birth of Jean-Nicolas Pache

Jean-Nicolas Pache, a war minister and mayor of Paris associated with the city's radical revolutionary government and with supporters of the journalist Jacques Hébert, was born in Verdun on 5 May 1746.

Jean-Nicolas Pache

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