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Also Known As Merlin de Thionville
Born September 13, 1762 • Paris • France
Died September 14, 1833 (aged 71) • Paris • France
Title / Office Corps Législatif (1795-1798), France • National Convention (1792-1795), France • Legislative Assembly (1791-1792), France
Political Affiliation Club of the Cordeliers
Role In French Revolution • Thermidorian Reaction
Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, undated lithograph.
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French revolutionary
Collot d'Herbois, engraving by C. Minatelli, 18th century
Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois
French radical
Tallien, engraving by F. Bonneville, late 18th century
Jean-Lambert Tallien
French revolutionary
Louis Fréron.
Louis Fréron
French journalist
Georges Danton
Georges Danton
French revolutionary leader
Desmoulins, Camille
Camille Desmoulins
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Jacques Roux
French priest
Jean-Baptiste Carrier, lithograph by F.-S. Delpech after a portrait by J.-B. Belliard
Jean-Baptiste Carrier
French revolutionary
Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette, engraving by F.-B. Lorieux after a portrait by F. Bonneville, 18th century.
Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette
French revolutionary
Eighteenth-century painted portrait of Maximilien de Robespierre wearing a brown striped coat, high collar, and white cravat, set against a plain background.
Maximilien Robespierre
French revolutionary
Talleyrand
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent
French statesman and diplomat
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Jacques-Louis David
French painter
Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti
Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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Louis de Saint-Just
Louis de Saint-Just
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Lazare Carnot, lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, after an engraving by C.A. Forestier
Lazare Carnot
French military engineer
Bosio, Jean-Baptiste-François: Portrait of Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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Jean-Paul Marat
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Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, engraving by J.-A. Allais, 19th century.
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