List people associated with the French revolution

This is a nonexhaustive Liste of characters associated with the French revolution . It includes partisans of the Révolution and opponents.

For the list of the groups and factions, to see Glossary of the French revolution.

Naturally, several characters played here of multiple roles. For example, the general Bonapartist Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was a active Jacobin and was associated with the Girondins and the Montagne. It was also a famous writer. The best way of clarifying this kind of complex situation is to refer to the article on the character in question.

Royalists

Family members royal

  • Louis XVI, king de France
  • Marie-Antoinette, queen of France
  • Louis, dolphin says “the child of the Temple”, wire of the king
  • Marie-Therese, known as “Mrs Royale”, oldest daughter of the king
  • Louis, count de Provence, brother of the king
  • Charles, count d' Artois, brother of the king

Ministers for the king

Breaking into leaf

See the article Club of Breaking into leaf the .

Of Gironde

See the article Of Gironde .

Ministers of Gironde

Other of Gironde important

Other characters associated with the of Gironde ones

Mountain dwellers

See the article Mountain

Members of the Committee of Public Hello

See the article Committee of Public Hello Some of the characters are not can be not mountain dwellers. To check.

Other Mountain dwellers

Hebertists

Members of the Committee of Public Hello

See the article Committee of Public Hello

Other members of the Committee of Public Hello

Some of the characters are can be Mountain dwellers. To check.

Bonapartists

Napoleon and his entourage

Other Bonapartists

Character with the too complex course to be classified

  • Henri Gregoire - revolutionary priest, in favor of the civil Constitution of the clergy.
  • Charles Maurice of Talleyrand - initially royalist, then one of the authors of the Declaration of the human rights and the citizen, then Foreign Minister under the Empire and Restoration.
  • Abbot Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès - Although member of the Clergy, it was representing Tiers state with the General states of 1789. Author of the lampoon What the third state? , he became Bonapartist.

Other political characters

  • Olympe de Gouges, auteure of the Declaration of the women's rights and of the citizen, was a woman of letters become political woman and polemist of 1788 to its death on the scaffold in 1793. It left many writings in favor of the civil laws and policies of the women and the abolition of the slavery of the Blacks.
  • the Furrier of Saint Fargeau - old noble, the death of the king voted and was assassinated shortly after.
  • Philippe Equality - voted the death of the king, his own cousin
  • Jacques Roux (associate with Jacques Hébert)
  • Honore Gabriel Riqueti, count of Mirabeau - Although member of the Noblesse, it was representing Tiers state with the General states of 1789
  • Guy-Jean-Baptist Target - lawyer, generally associated with the Directoire

Revolutionary generals

Writers

See also List of the historians of the French revolution.

Philosophers having influenced the Revolution

Contemporary polemists authors of the Revolution

  • François-Christmas Babeuf, known as Gracchus
  • Edmund Burke
  • Thomas Paine
  • Anne German Louise of Staël
  • Jean Richer de Sérizy, royalist journalist.

Other contemporary authors of the Revolution

This list, nonexhaustive, indicates only some authors strongly implied in the Revolution or influenced by it.

Artists

Others

  • Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis (doctor and philosopher
  • Charlotte Corday - meutrière of Jean-Paul Marat
  • Joseph Cugnot - inventive of the dray with fire, ancestor of the Automobile
  • Charles-Augustin of Coulomb - major contributor of the Metric system.
  • Eleuthère Irenee of the Bridge of Nemours
  • Pierre Samuel of the Bridge of Nemours
  • Charles of Buissière, employed Committee of Public Hello which destroyed the files of charge.
  • Antoine Lavoisier - chemist, also contributor of the metric system, but carried out like farmer general.
  • Jacques-Donatien Ray - a participant essential with the support of France for the independence of the the United States of America, emigrated .
  • Brothers Montgolfier - inventive of the balloon with hot air and persons in charge of the first air recognition.
  • Thérésa Tallien .

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