This is apartiallistof people associated with theFrench Revolution, including supporters and opponents. Note that not all people listed here wereFrench.
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| Reine Audu | Participant inThe Women's March on Versailles and the10 August (French Revolution). | ||
| Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione | Officer throughout the Revolutionary era andEmpire; later a general andMarshal of France. | ||
| Jean-Pierre-André Amar | Deputy to theNational Convention fromIsère; member of theCommittee of General Security. | ||
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| François-Noël Babeuf | Proto-socialist,guillotined in 1797 after an attemptedcoup d'etat. | ||
| Jean Sylvain Bailly | President of theThird Estate who administered theTennis Court Oath; made Mayor ofParis after thestorming of the Bastille; guillotined during theReign of Terror. | ||
| Antoine Barnave | Constitutional monarchist andFeuillant; guillotined. | ||
| Paul Nicolas, vicomte de Barras | AMontagnard, thenThermidorian; ultimately theDirectory régime's executive leader. | ||
| Madame du Barry | Mistress of KingLouis XV and famous victim of the guillotine during theReign of Terror. | ||
| François-Marie, marquis de Barthélemy | Briefly aDirector; exiled toFrench Guiana; returned to France during theEmpire. | ||
| Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte | General, Ambassador to Vienna and Minister of War; later King ofSweden andNorway. | ||
| Joséphine de Beauharnais | Empress; wife ofNapoleon Bonaparte. | ||
| Louis Alexandre Berthier | General; effectively Napoleon Bonaparte's chief of staff. | ||
| Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne | Committee of Public Safety member; survived9 Thermidor; later deported toFrench Guiana. | ||
| Joseph Bonaparte | Eldest Bonaparte brother; supported his brother Napoleon; later made King ofNaples and thenSpain. | ||
| Lucien Bonaparte | Younger brother of Napoleon; President of the Assembly during the Directory; later fell out with Napoleon. | ||
| Napoleon Bonaparte | General; seized power asFirst Consul in the18 Brumairecoup. Made virtual dictator as Consul for Life in 1802. Declared Emperor of the French in 1804. Founded theFirst French Empire. | ||
| Louis Antoine de Bourbon, duc d'Enghien | Prince of the Blood; son of the Duc de Bourbon; kidnapped and executed byNapoleon. | ||
| Louis François de Bourbon | Prince of the Blood; briefly emigrated from 1789 to 1790, but returned to France; expelled byDirectory; died in exile. | ||
| Louis Henri, duc de Bourbon | Prince of the Blood, son of the Prince de Condé and father of the Duc d'Enghien; emigrated. | ||
| Louis Joseph de Bourbon | Prince of the Blood; composed theBrunswick Manifesto. | ||
| Charles de Bouvens | Orator who had to flee theFrench Revolution due to his conservative views. | ||
| Louis de Breteuil | Royalist; briefly supplantedNecker in the royal cabinet. | ||
| Cardinal Étienne Charles de Brienne | Royalist; President of the Royal Council of Finances shortly before the Revolution. | ||
| Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville | Girondist (Brissotin); guillotined. | ||
| Guillaume Marie Anne Brune | Political journalist;Jacobin; friend ofGeorges Danton; appointed a general, thenMarshal of France; murdered by royalists during theWhite Terror. | ||
| Edmund Burke | English philosopher and politician; author of famous 1790 polemic against the Revolution. | ||
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| Charles Alexandre de Calonne | French Controller-General of Finances from 1783 to 1787, whose discovery of the perilous state of French finances in 1786 precipitated the crisis leading to the Revolution. | ||
| Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès | Moderate;Second Consul underBonaparte; chief contributor to theNapoleonic Code. | ||
| Pierre Joseph Cambon | Legislative and the Convention member; directed French financial policy and aided in theThermidorcoup. | ||
| Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot | Mathematician; physicist;Committee of Public Safety member; "Organizer of Victory"; turned againstRobespierre on9 Thermidor; aDirector; ousted in18 Fructidorcoup. | ||
| Louis Philippe, duc de Chartres | Eldest son of the Duke of Orleans; defected toAustria withDumouriez in 1793; later King of France. | ||
| Pierre Gaspard Chaumette | Cult of Reason devotee; guillotined, as was fellow devoteeJacques Hébert. | ||
| André Chénier | Poet; guillotined. | ||
| Jean Chouan | Royalist counter-revolutionary. | ||
| Étienne Clavière | Girondist; finance minister 1792; died in prison by suicide 1793. | ||
| Anacharsis Cloots | Philosopher and writer; guillotined. | ||
| Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois | Actor;Paris Commune member; belatedMontagnard;Committee of Public Safety member; deported toFrench Guiana after9 Thermidor revolt, where he died. | ||
| Marquis de Condorcet | Philosopher; mathematician;Girondist associate; died in prison. | ||
| Charlotte Corday | AssassinatedMarat; guillotined. | ||
| Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | Scientist;metric system pioneer. | ||
| Georges Couthon | Montagnard;Committee of Public Safety member; guillotined following9 Thermidor. | ||
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| Georges Danton | Writer;Jacobin, but neither aGirondist nor aMontagnard;Committee of Public Safety member; guillotined. | ||
| Pierre Claude François Daunou | Historian; loosely associated with theGirondists faction; served bothDirectory andEmpire. | ||
| Jacques-Louis David | Painter;Montagnard;Committee of General Security member; survived fall from power following9 Thermidor. | ||
| Louis Charles Antoine Desaix | General; killed while leading the French to victory during theBattle of Marengo (1800). | ||
| Camille Desmoulins | Journalist;Montagnard;Danton associate; guillotined. | ||
| Denis Diderot | Enlightenment author;atheist philosopher; influenced Revolutionary theory. | ||
| Jacques François Dugommier | General;National Convention deputy. Killed in 1794 at theBattle of the Black Mountain | ||
| Charles François Dumouriez | General; sometimeGirondist and Foreign Minister in the Girondist cabinet; eventually defected toAustria. | ||
| Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours | Constitutional monarchist;National Constituent Assembly president; eventually exiled. | ||
| Roger Ducos | Deputy fromLandes; member of theCouncil of Five Hundred; vice-president of theConsulate Senate. | ||
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| Grace Elliott | Scottishcourtesan; former mistress ofLouis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans; resident in Paris throughout the Revolution. | ||
| Antoine Joseph Marie d'Espinassy | Politician, Knight, General and Deputy; Royal ofSignes and Revolutionary. | ||
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| Fabre d'Églantine | Author of theFrench Revolutionary Calendar; guillotined. | ||
| Joseph Fesch | Cardinal; closely associated withNapoleon Bonaparte. | ||
| Joseph Fouché | Jacobin deputy;Thermidorian;Minister of Police under Napoleon. | ||
| Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville | Public Prosecutor during theReign of Terror; subsequently guillotined (1795). | ||
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| Olympe de Gouges | Writer; advocate of gender equality; guillotined. | ||
| Henri Grégoire | Revolutionary priest; supportedCivil Constitution of the Clergy. | ||
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| Jacques Hébert | Polemicist; editor ofLe Père Duchesne; guillotined. | ||
| Marie Jean Hérault | Committee of Public Safety member; revisedCondorcet'sConstitution of 1793;Danton associate; guillotined. | ||
| Lazare Hoche | Soldier rapidly promoted to General during early years of Revolution. | ||
| Pierre-Augustin Hulin | Ex-royal soldier and one of the first revolutionaries to enter the Bastille; later general underBonaparte. | ||
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| Jean-Baptiste Jourdan | General; victor at the battles ofWattignies andFleurus. | ||
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| François Christophe Kellermann | Promoted to General early in the Revolution;Battle of Valmy hero;Marshal of France; army administrator duringEmpire years. | ||
| Jean-Baptiste Kléber | Revolutionary general; assassinated in 1800. | ||
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| Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | Bonapartist general; author ofLes Liaisons dangereuses. | ||
| Marie Thérèse, princesse de Lamballe | Friend of Marie Antoinette; victim of theSeptember Massacres. | ||
| Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette | General;constitutional monarchist, co-wrote theDeclaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. | ||
| Claire Lacombe | Feminist revolutionary, founder of theSociety of Revolutionary Republican Women. | ||
| Alexandre-Théodore, comte de Lameth | LeadingFeuillant; formed "Triumvirate" with Barnave and Duport; eventually emigrated. | ||
| Charles Malo François Lameth | Brother of Alexandre de Lameth;Feuillant; emigrated. | ||
| Jean Lannes | Soldier rising through ranks to become general;Marshal of France; close toBonaparte. Killed atAspern-Essling in 1809. | ||
| Arnaud de Laporte | High royal government official, headed up antirevolutionary activities; second political victim of the guillotine. | ||
| Marquis de Launay | Royalist governor of the Bastille; killed after its storming. | ||
| Antoine Lavoisier | Scientist;metric pioneer; tax collector; guillotined. | ||
| Charles Leclerc | General; close toBonaparte; served inHaiti. | ||
| Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas | Deputy to the National Convention fromPas-de-Calais; Robespierrist and close ally ofSaint-Just; committed suicide at Robespierre's downfall. | ||
| Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau | Former noble; voted to executeLouis XVI; assassinated one day before the execution of Louis XVI. | ||
| Louis Legendre | Deputy for the Seine, present at various events. Eventual President of the Convention, member of the Council of Ancients and Council of Five Hundred. | ||
| Jacques-Donatien Le Ray | Promoted French support for theAmerican Revolution. | ||
| Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet | Committee of Public Safety member; opposedGirondist faction. | ||
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | Commander ofHaitian rebels fighting against French occupying forces; captured and imprisoned by Napoleon's government. | ||
| Louis XVI | French king at outbreak of Revolution; deposed; guillotined. | ||
| Louis XVII | The "LostDauphin" | ||
| Nicolas, Comte Luckner | German-bornMarshal of France; commanded troops for theFirst Republic; guillotined during the Reign of Terror. | ||
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| Stanislas-Marie Maillard | National Guardsman; the first revolutionary to enter the fortress in theStorming of the Bastille | ||
| Guillaume-Chrétien de Malesherbes | Louis XVI's defense counsel at his trial, although not known as a royalist; guillotined. | ||
| Jean-Paul Marat | Radical journalist;Montagnard; assassinated byCharlotte Corday. | ||
| François-Séverin Marceau | Soldier who participated in thestorming of the Bastille; later a general. | ||
| Marie Antoinette | Queen consort of France; deposed, guillotined. | ||
| André Masséna | General; victor at theBattle of Zürich. BecameMarshal of the Empire in 1804. | ||
| Jean-Sifrein Maury | French cardinal; Archbishop of Paris; royalist. | ||
| Théroigne de Méricourt | Radical agitator, organizer. | ||
| Philippe-Antoine Merlin ("Merlin de Douai") | Director; later aBonapartist. | ||
| Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau ("Mirabeau") | Represented theThird Estate in theEstates-General of 1789, despite being a noble; remained a major political figure throughout the rest of his life. | ||
| Antoine-François Momoro | Printer, publisher, andsection leader;Hébertist; originator of the phraseLiberté, Égalité, Fraternité; guillotined. | ||
| Charles, baron de Montesquieu ("Montesquieu") | Enlightenment political philosopher; influenced Revolutionary thinking | ||
| Jean Victor Marie Moreau | General; victor at theBattle of Hohenlinden. | ||
| Gouverneur Morris | American minister to France; witness and diarist of the early Revolution, 1792–94. | ||
| Jean-François-Auguste Moulin | General; member of the Directory. | ||
| Jean Joseph Mounier | Monarchist deputy; president of theNational Constituent Assembly, 1789. | ||
| Joachim Murat | Prominentcavalry general; became Napoleon's brother-in-law; later made King ofNaples. Executed by firing squad in 1815. | ||
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| Jacques Necker | Liberal royalist; Director-General of Finance whose dismissal precipitated thestorming of the Bastille. | ||
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| Louis Philippe II, duc d'Orléans | FirstPrince of the Blood; supported the Revolution, taking the namePhilippe Egalité; voted to execute his cousin the King; later guillotined on suspicion of plotting to become King. | ||
| Louis Philippe d'Orléans | Prince of the Blood; son ofLouis Philippe II, duc d'Orléans;Jacobin; General; broke with theRepublic in 1793; exiled from France the same year; laterKing of the French. | ||
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| Thomas Paine | American revolutionary writer; moved to France during French Revolution but subsequently fell out of favor; arrested, imprisoned and sentenced to death duringReign of Terror, but survived. | ||
| Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve | Insurrectionary mayor of Paris; member of firstCommittee of Public Safety; associated withGirondists; committed suicide duringReign of Terror. | ||
| Pierre Philippeaux | Montagnard;Danton associate; guillotined. | ||
| Philippe Egalité | SeeOrléans, Louis Philippe II, duc d' above. | ||
| Charles Pichegru | General; member of theCouncil of Five Hundred; conspirator in theCoup of 18 Fructidor. | ||
| Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois ("Prieur de la Côte-d'Or") | Engineer;Committee of Public Safety member;Carnot associate; turned againstRobespierre on9 Thermidor;Council of Five Hundred member duringDirectory. | ||
| Pierre Louis Prieur ("Crieur de la Marne") | National Constituent Assembly secretary;Committee of Public Safety member; exiled followingBourbon Restoration. | ||
| Louis, comte de Provence | Louis XVI's younger brother; emigrated 1791; declared himself Louis XVIII, King of France in 1795, but did not actually assume the throne until 1814. | ||
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| Jean-François Rewbell | Deputy; Feuillant; member of the Directory. | ||
| Maximilien Robespierre | Montagnard;Committee of Public Safety member; prominent duringReign of Terror; guillotined after9 Thermidor. | ||
| Comte de Rochambeau | Senior general and former commander of French troops during theAmerican Revolution, commander of theArmee du Nord for theRepublic; imprisoned during the Reign of Terror but not executed. | ||
| Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière | Girondist; interior minister in 1792; committed suicide in 1793 following his wife's condemnation. | ||
| Madame Roland (Manon-Jeanne Roland, née Philpon) | Jean-Marie Roland's wife; author of influential Revolutionary writings under Roland's name;salonière; guillotined. | ||
| Gilbert Romme | Initially aGirondist politician, thenMontagnard; designedFrench Republican Calendar; condemned after Girondists' return to power; committed suicide before execution. | ||
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Enlightenment political philosopher; influenced Revolutionary thinking. | ||
| Jacques Roux | Hébertist leader of theEnragés faction; member ofParis Commune; arrested duringReign of Terror; committed suicide before trial. | ||
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| Marquis de Sade | Author of erotica and philosophy; imprisoned on charges of sodomy and poisoning at the outbreak of the Revolution; released 1790; elected to theNational Convention; escaped execution during theReign of Terror. | ||
| Jean Bon Saint-André | Montagnard;Committee of Public Safety member; later became a naval officer and administrator. | ||
| Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Committee of Public Safety member;Montagnard; close associate ofRobespierre; prominent inReign of Terror; guillotined after9 Thermidor. | ||
| Joseph Servan | General; Minister of War. | ||
| Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès | Although acleric, entered theEstates-General of 1789 as a representative of theThird Estate; author of pamphletWhat is the Third Estate?; instigated the18 Brumairecoup, but outflanked byBonaparte. | ||
| Madame de Staël | Daughter ofJacques Necker;salonière and writer; adopted moderate Revolutionary position; opposed Napoleon. | ||
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| Jean Lambert Tallien | Montagnard; later a leadingThermidorian. | ||
| Madame Tallien (Thérésa Tallien, née Teresa Cabarrús) | Her moderating influence on her husbandJean Lambert Tallien saved lives in the wake of9 Thermidor, earning her the monikerNotre-Dame de Thermidor ("Our Lady of Thermidor"). | ||
| Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ("Talleyrand") | Clergyman and diplomat; initially a royalist, then revolutionary; co-wrote theDeclaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and theCivil Constitution of the Clergy; survived9 Thermidor to become Foreign Minister underDirectory,Napoleon, and theBourbon Restoration. | ||
| Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target | Lawyer and politician; deputy of theThird Estate in theEstates-General of 1789; survivedReign of Terror to becomeDirectory politician. | ||
| Jean Baptiste Treilhard | Deputy from Paris; held multiple high-ranking offices including Director. | U[edit] | |
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| Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud | Girondist leader; guillotined. | ||
| Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac | Girondist, thenMontagnard;Committee of Public Safety member; drew up9 Thermidor report outlawingRobespierre; later aBonapartist. | ||
| Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) | Enlightenment author and philosopher whose writings influenced Revolutionary thinking. | ||
