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Regicides of Louis XVI
- Maximilien RobespierreMaximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was baptised on the 6th of May 1758 in the city of Arras, located in Artois.
- Augustin RobespierreAugustin Bon Joseph de Robespierre entered the world on the 21st of January 1763 in Arras. He was the youngest of four children born to lawyer…
- Jacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis David was born on the 30th of August 1748 into a prosperous family in Paris. When he was about nine years old, his father died in a duel.
- Roger DucosPierre Roger Ducos stood in the National Convention on the 21st of January 1793. He cast his ballot for the death of King Louis XVI without appeal or delay.
- Paul BarrasPaul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras was born at Fox-Amphoux on the 30th of June 1755. He descended from a noble family of Provence and entered the…
- Emmanuel Joseph SieyèsEmmanuel Joseph Sieyès was born on the 3rd of May 1748 in Fréjus, a southern French town. He entered the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris and spent ten…
- Jean-Jacques-Régis de CambacérèsJean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès entered the world on the 18th of October 1753 in Montpellier. He was born into a family of legal nobility, though his…
- Joseph FouchéJoseph Fouché arrived in the world on the 21st of May 1759 within the small village of Le Pellerin near Nantes. His father Julien Joseph Fouché worked as a…