list of people associated with the french revolution

This is a partial list of people involved in the French Revolution. It includes both supporters and opponents of the revolution. It attempts to give identifying facts and ultimate fates. As a rule, the best place to clarify complexities is in the article on the individual in question.

Charles Pierre Franois Augereau - officer throughout the Revolutionary era and Empire, general, later Marshal of France.
Franois-Nol Babeuf - proto-socialist, guillotined in 1797 after a coup attempt
Jean Sylvain Bailly - leader of the Third Estate, administered the Tennis Court Oath, made mayor of Paris after the storming of the Bastille, guillotined during the Reign of Terror
Paul Franois Jean Nicolas Barras - Montagnard, then a Thermidorian, finally the main executive leader during the Directory regime
Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave - constitutional monarchist / Feuillant (faction)
Franois Barthlemy - briefly a Director, exiled to French Guiana, returned during the Empire
Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte - General, later king of Sweden
Louis Alexandre Berthier - General, effectively Napoleon Bonaparte's chief of staff
Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne - on Committee of Public Safety, more radical Robespierre, but survived on 9 Thermidor; was later deported to French Guiana
Louis de Breteuil - royalist, briefly supplanted Necker in the royal cabinet
Cardinal tienne Charles de Lomnie de Brienne - royalist, President of the Royal Council of Finances shortly before the Revolution
Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville - Girondist (faction), (Girondists are sometimes designated "Brissotins"), guillotined
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune - political journalist, Jacobin, friend of Georges Danton. Went directly from civilian life to being a general; later marshal of France. Murdered by royalists during the White Terror
Edmund Burke - English philosopher and politician, author of a famous 1790 polemic against the Revolution
Jean Jacques Rgis de Cambacrs - a moderate throughout the Revolutionary era, Second Consul under Bonaparte, chief contributor to the Napoleonic Code
Pierre Joseph Cambon - a rather independent member of the Committee of Public Safety
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot - mathematician, physicist, on Committee of Public Safety, turned against Robespierre on 9 Thermidor, a Director, ousted in 18 Fructidor coup
Jacques Antoine Marie Cazals - royalist
Franois-Ren de Chateaubriand - royalist
Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, like Jacques Hbert a devotee of the Cult of Reason, guillotined with Hbert
Andr Chnier, poet, guillotined
tienne Clavire - Girondist (faction), finance minister in 1792, died in prison 1793
Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois - actor, part of the insurrectionary Paris Commune (French Revolution), belated Montagnard (faction), on Committee of Public Safety. After the Thermidorian Reaction, was deported to French Guiana, where he died
Marquis de Condorcet - philosopher, mathematician, loosely associated with the Girondist faction, probably suicide in prison.
Charlotte Corday - assassin of Marat
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb - major contributor to the metric system
Georges Couthon - Montagnard (faction), on Committee of Public Safety, guillotined after 9 Thermidor
Georges Danton - writer, Jacobin but neither a Girondist nor a Montagnard (factions), on Committee of Public Safety, guillotined 3 months before Robespierre
Pierre Claude Franois Daunou - historian, loosely associated with the Girondist faction, survived to serve under the Directory and Empire as well.
Jacques Louis David - painter, Montagnard (faction), on Committee of General Security, fell from power after 9 Thermidor but survived
Camille Desmoulins - journalist, Montagnard (faction), close to Danton and shared in his downfall, guillotined
Denis Diderot - Enlightenment author and atheist philosopher, influential on the Revolution
Jacques Franois Dugommier - General
Charles Franois Dumouriez - General, sometime Girondist (faction), foreign minister in the Girondist cabinet, eventually defected to the Austrians
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours - constitutional monarchist, president of the National Constituent Assembly, eventual exile
Fabre d'glantine - author of the names and months of the French Revolutionary Calendar
Joseph Fesch - Roman Catholic cardinal, closely associated with Napoleon Bonaparte
Henri Grgoire - revolutionary priest, supporter of Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
Jacques Hbert - polemical writer, editor of Le Pre Duchesne , guillotined late in Reign of Terror for advocating yet more radical measures than those in place
Marie Jean Hrault de Schelles - on Committee of Public Safety, revised Condorcet's Constitution of 1793, close to Danton and shared in his downfall, guillotined
Lazare Hoche - ascended from corporal to general in the early years of the Revolution, died in 1797 of tuberculosis
Josphine de Beauharnais - Empress, wife of Napoleon
Franois Christophe Kellermann - longtime officer, became general early in the Revolution, hero of Valmy, marshal of France, employed in the administration of the army under the Empire
Jean-Baptiste Klber - Revolutionary general, assassinated in Cairo 1800
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Bonapartist general, author of Les Liaisons dangereuses
Lafayette - general, constitutional monarchist / Feuillant (faction)
Jean Lannes - rose through the ranks to become general, marshal of France. Close to Napoleon Bonaparte, killed during the campaign of 1809
Antoine Lavoisier - a major contributor to the metric system; guillotined for his role as a tax collector.
Charles Leclerc - General, close to Napoleon Bonaparte, served in Haiti
Louis LePeletier de Saint Fargeau - ex-noble, voted for the execution of Louis XVI, assassinated shortly thereafter.
Jacques-Donatien Le Ray - a key figure in engineering French support for the American Revolution, but an migr during the French Revolution.
Robert Lindet - a rather independent member of the Committee of Public Safety, but opposed the Girondist faction
Louis XVI of France - king at the start of the Revolution, deposed, guillotined
Louis XVII of France - the "lost dauphin"
Franois-Sverin Marceau - General
Marie Antoinette - queen at the start of the Revolution, deposed, guillotined
Jean-Paul Marat - radical journalist, Montagnard (faction), assassinated by Charlotte Corday
Jean-Sifrein Maury - royalist
Guillaume-Chrtien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes - while not particularly a royalist, was the former king's defense counsel at his trial.
Philippe-Antoine Merlin - a Director, later a Bonapartist
Honor Mirabeau - Although noble, entered the Estates-General of 1789 as a representative of the Third Estate and was a major figure until his 1791 death from natural causes
Montesquieu - Enlightenment political philosopher, influential on the Revolution
Jean Victor Marie Moreau - general, with a complicated career full of intrigues
Napoleon Bonaparte - General, then First Consul, then Emperor
Jacques Necker - liberal royalist, Director-General of Finances at start of Revolution
Olympe de Gouges - writer, advocate of gender equality, guillotined.
Thomas Paine - American revolutionary writer, imprisoned and sentenced to death during Reign of Terror, but survived
Jrme Ption de Villeneuve - insurrectionary mayor of Paris, on the firstCommittee of Public Safety, loosely connected to the Girondist faction, ultimately a suicide during the Reign of Terror
Pierre Phlippeaux - Montagnard (faction)
Philippe-Egalit - Duke of Orleans, constitutional monarchist, voted for the execution of his own cousinLouis XVI; guillotined on (probably false) suspicions of intriguing
Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois (a.k.a. Prieur de la Cte-d'Or) - engineer, on Committee of Public Safety, close to Carnot, turned against Robespierre on 9 Thermidor, under the Directory he sat in the Council of Five Hundred
Pierre Louis Prieur (a.k.a. Prieur de la Marne) - on Committee of Public Safety
Maximilien Robespierre - Montagnard (faction), on Committee of Public Safety, prominent in Reign of Terror, guillotined after 9 Thermidor.
Jean Marie Roland de la Platire - Girondist (faction), interior minister in 1792, committed suicide in 1793
Madame Roland (born Manon Jeanne Philpon) - wife of Jean Marie Roland, author of many writings under his name, salonire, guillotined
Gilbert Romme
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Enlightenment political philosopher, influential on the Revolution
Jacques Roux - Hebertist
Marquis de Sade - erotic and philosophic author
Jean Bon Saint-Andr - Montagnard (faction), on Committee of Public Safety, later a naval officer
Louis Antoine Lon de Saint-Just - on Committee of Public Safety - Montagnard (faction), on Committee of Public Safety, close to Robespierre, prominent in Reign of Terror, guillotined after 9 Thermidor
Marie Thrse Louise de Savoie-Carignan, princesse de Lamballe - victim of the September Massacres who was raped, dismembered and beheaded
Abb Emmanuel Joseph Sieys - Although a member of the clergy, entered the Estates-General of 1789 as a representative of the Third Estate. Author of pamphlet "What is the Third Estate?". Instigated the coup of 18 Brumaire, but was outflanked by Napoleon Bonaparte
Madame de Stal - salonire, writer, daughter of Jacques Necker
Jean Lambert Tallien - Montagnard, then a leading Thermidorian
Madame Tallien - "Notre-Dame de Thermidor", she played interesting roles in different stages of the Revolution
Talleyrand - clergyman and diplomat; first a royalist, then one of the authors of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and a constitutional bishop, eventually Foreign Minister under Napoleon.
Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target - lawyer, generally associated with Directory-era politics.
Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud - Girondist (faction) leader, guillotined.
Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux - general, died in battle 1800
Bertrand Barre de Vieuzac - Girondist, then a Montagnard (factions), on Committee of Public Safety, drew up the 9 Thermidor report outlawing Robespierre; later a Bonapartist.
Voltaire -- Enlightenment author, deist/agnostic philosopher, influential on the Revolution

List Of People Associated With The French Revolution

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