Pierre-Louis Prieur

Pierre-Louis Prieur (born August 1, 1756, Sommesous, France—died May 31, 1827, Brussels, Netherlands [now in Belgium]) was a French political figure, a member of the Committee of Public Safety, which ruled Revolutionary France during the period of the Jacobin dictatorship (1793–94). He vigorously enforced the committee’s policies in the antirepublican coastal towns west of Paris. Prieur was a lawyer at Châlons at the time of his election to the bourgeois Third Estate of the Estates-General...