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
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.
The Mountain
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The Mountain was a political group during the French Revolution. Its members, called the Montagnards, sat on the highest benches in the National Convention. The term, first used during a session of th
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
…a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the French Revolution. The youngest person elected to the National Convention, he was a member of the Mountain faction and a steadfast supporter and close friend of Maximilien Robespierre. He was swept away in Robespierre's downfall on 9 Thermidor, Year II. Renowned for…
The arrest of Maximilien Robespierre and his allies showing at the centre of the image gendarme Merda firing at Robespierre (colour engraving by Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert after the painting by Fulchran-Jean Harriet, Carnavalet Museum)
Pro-Montagnard art