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Born September 1, 1727 • France
Died April 26, 1794 • April 14, 1794 (aged 66) • Paris • France
Title / Office Estates-General (1789-1789)
Political Affiliation Hébertist
Billaud-Varenne, engraving by F. Bonneville, late 18th century
Jean-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne
French lawyer
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Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres showing Joan of Arc in armor holding a banner at an altar during the coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral, with figures praying behind her.
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
Full-length portrait of Cardinal Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne, showing him in red clerical robes holding a red book, standing beside a balustrade with a draped curtain behind.
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Jules, Cardinal Mazarin
Jules, Cardinal Mazarin
French cardinal and statesman
Suger, detail of a stained glass window, 12th century; in the abbey church of Saint-Denis, Fr.
Suger
French abbot
Henry de Guise
Henri I de Lorraine, 3 duc de Guise
French noble
Félicité Lamennais, oil on canvas by Paulin-Guérin, 1826; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons, France.
Félicité Lamennais
French priest
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Hincmar of Reims
French theologian
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Charlest, count de Montalember
French politician and historian
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Henri Lacordaire
French priest
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Charles de Lorraine, 2nd cardinal de Lorraine
French cardinal
Jean du Bellay, engraving by an unknown French artist, 16th century
Jean du Bellay
French cardinal and diplomat
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Étienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne
French cardinal and statesman
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Jean Balue
French cardinal
Dupanloup, engraving
Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup
bishop of Orléans
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Mary Of The Incarnation
French mystic
Duprat, detail from a lithograph, 1527
Antoine Duprat
French chancellor and cardinal
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Albert, count de Mun
French religious leader