Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois

Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois (born December 2, 1763, Auxonne, France—died August 11, 1832, Dijon) was a French military engineer who was a member of the Committee of Public Safety, which ruled Revolutionary France during the period of the Jacobin dictatorship (1793–94). He organized the manufacture and requisitioning of the weapons and munitions that were needed by the French for war with the European powers. When the Revolution broke out in 1789, Prieur was a lieutenant of engineers...