Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau, known simply as Mirabeau, was a French writer, orator, and statesman, and a prominent figure of the early stages of the French Revolution.
Portrait by Joseph Boze, 1789
Bust of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau at Palace of Versailles
Statue of Honoré de Mirabeau. Palais de justice d'Aix-en-Provence
Statue of Mirabeau at the Panthéon
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The Panthéon is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It stands in the Latin Quarter, on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the centre of the Place du Panthéon, which was named after i
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
…pericarditis in 1791 and was regarded as a national hero and a father of the Revolution. He received a grand burial and was the first to be interred at the Panthéon. During the 1792 trial of Louis XVI, the discovery that Mirabeau had secretly been in the pay of the king brought him into posthumous disgrace, and two…
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Looking upward at the first and second domes
Iron rods were used to give greater strength and stability to the stone structure (1758–90)
The Tomb of Jean-Jacques Rousseau