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Antoine Simon (1736 – 28 July 1794) was ashoemaker at Rue des Cordeliers in Paris and a member of theClub of the Cordeliers, representative of theParis Commune. He was born inTroyes, France to François Simon and Marie-Jeanne Adenet. On 3 July 1793, Simon was designated to watch overLouis XVII at theTemple. On 19 January 1794, Simon was removed from his position and left the Temple in company of his wife. On 28 July 1794, Simon was among the 21 to be sent to theguillotine together withMaximilien Robespierre at thePlace de la Révolution, today'sPlace de la Concorde, in Paris, in an execution which marked the end of theTerror. He was buried in theErrancis Cemetery, a common place of interment for those executed during the Revolution.[1]
He married his first wife, Marie-Barbe Hoyau (widow Munster), in November 1766. She died at the Hôtel-Dieu on 11 March 1782. Simon remarried Marie-Jeanne Aladame on 20 May 1788, in the parish of Saint-Côme-Saint-Damien. Marie-Jeanne (born on 25 June 1746, in Saint-Étienne-du-Mont parish, Paris) was a servant and the daughter of Fiacre Aladame (a carpenter) and Reine-Geneviève Aubert. She came to wider attention during thestorming of the Tulleries Palace in 1792, for having diligently nursed wounded republicans.[2] Marie-Jeanne outlived her husband and died in Paris in 1819 at theHospice des Incurables.[3]
AuthorGeorges Bordonove gives the impression of a Simon with limited intelligence, entirely devoted to the ideals of the Revolution, and strongly influenced by political leaders such asPierre Gaspard Chaumette andJacques Hébert. Simon seems to have followed Chaumette's idea to "give some education to the prince [...] to make him lose the idea of his rank" (lui donner quelque éducation [...] pour lui faire perdre l'idée de son rang).[4] He requested that his wife Marie-Jeanne help him to care for the boy.
Some authors have portrayed Simon as a violent, vulgar and abusive alcoholic who acted brutally toward the child. Others have claimed that, apart from teaching the boy to sing bawdy songs and to "talk the language of the populace and soldiery", he was otherwise well treated.[5]
In the US television seriesThe Time Tunnel (1966-1967), Simon appears in the episode "Reign of Terror," played by French actorLouis Mercier.
Simon is mentioned in the video gameAssassin's Creed Unity as the shoemaker that abused Louis XVII.
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