Bertrand Barère
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Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac was a French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the most prominent members of the National Convention, representing the Plain during the French Revolution. The Pl
Portrait by Jean-Louis Laneuville, 1794
Deportation of former members of the Committee of Public Safety, Barère, Billaud-Varenne and Collot, the day after the insurgency of 12th of Germinal (1st April 1795), causes violent unrest in Paris
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, sometimes nicknamed the Archangel of Terror, was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention, a Jacobin club
Bertrand Barère
…April and of a sans-culottes army in September 1793. According to Francois Buzot, Barère was responsible for the Reign of Terror, like Robespierre and Louis de Saint-Just. In spring 1794 and after the Festival of the Supreme Being, he became an opponent of Maximilien Robespierre and joined the coup, leading to his downfall…
Saint-Just by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1793)
in 1785 Saint-Just wrote a monograph about Château de Coucy, a mediaeval castle with a donjon
Saint-Just's home in Blérancourt is now a museum and tourist center.
Entrance to the Committee of Public Safety.