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French Rev. People

YGK These People From the French Revolution

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The Bourbon king of France during the Revolution, who reluctantly became a constitutional monarch before being guillotined after the Flight to Varennes Louis XVI
The Queen of France during the Revolution, nicknamed "Madame Déficit," whose Austrian background and lavish spending made her unpopular; guillotined in 1793 Marie Antoinette
The preeminent figure in the National Assembly who attempted to build a constitutional monarchy like Great Britain's, though later revealed to have received payments from the royal family The Comte de Mirabeau
The "Hero of Two Worlds" who fought in the American Revolution, was an early leader in the National Assembly, and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man with Thomas Jefferson The Marquis de Lafayette
A key leader of the Insurrection of August 10, 1792, and a radical leader in the Jacobin and Cordeliers Clubs who spearheaded the creation of the Committee of Public Safety Georges Danton
The de facto leader of France during the Reign of Terror, known as “the Incorruptible,” who dominated the Committee of Public Safety and promoted the Cult of the Supreme Being Maximilian Robespierre
A radical newspaper publisher of the Friend of the People who called for violence and was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday Jean-Paul Marat
The leading French diplomat of the revolutionary period who championed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, sparked the XYZ Affair, and represented France at the Congress of Vienna Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The general who rose to power by defeating a Royalist uprising with a "whiff of grapeshot" and whose 1799 Coup of 18 Brumaire is often cited as the end of the French Revolution Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis XVI's younger brother (Comte de Provence) whose return to power after Napoleon's defeat marked the definitive end of the revolutionary era Louis XVIII
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