List of people associated with the French Revolution

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[[fr:Liste des personnages associ�s � la R�volution fran�aise]]

This is a partial list of people involved in the French Revolution. It includes both supporters and opponents of the revolution.

For a list of groups and factions, see Glossary of the French Revolution.

Inevitably, many individuals here played multiple roles. For example, the Bonapartist General Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was an active Jacobin and associated, to some degree with both the Girondists and the Montagne. (He was also a prominent author.) As a rule, the best place to clarify these complexities is in the article on the individual in question.

Contents 1 Royalists 1.1 Bourbon Royalty 1.2 Royal Ministers 1.3 Other Royalists 2 Feuillants 3 The Gironde 3.1 Girondist ministers 3.2 Other important Girondists 3.3 Also associated with the Gironde 4 The Montagne (Mountain) 4.1 Members of the Committee of Public Safety 5 Other Montagnards 6 Hebertists 6.1 Members of the Committee of Public Safety 7 Other members of the Committee for Public Safety 8 Bonapartists 8.1 Napoleon and his retinue 8.2 Other Bonapartists 9 Too fluid to classify 10 Other revolutionary generals 11 Other political figures 12 Writers 12.1 Philosophers who influenced the Revolution 12.2 Polemical writers contemporary with the Revolution 12.3 Other writers contemporary with the Revolution 13 Artists 14 Others 15 References

Royalists

In this context, "royalist" refers specifically to supporters of the Bourbon monarchy (not to Bonapartists).

Bourbon Royalty

• Marie Antoinette
• Louis XVI of France
• Louis XVII of France - the 'lost dauphin'

Royal Ministers

• Cardinal [[Etienne Charles de Lom�nie de Brienne]]
• Jacques Necker
• Louis de Breteuil

Other Royalists

• [[Fran�ois-Ren� de Chateaubriand]]

Feuillants

See main article Feuillant.

• Marquis de la Fayette

The Gironde

See main article Girondist.

Girondist ministers

• [[�tienne Clavi�re]]
• General [[Charles Fran�ois Dumouriez]], eventually defected to the Austrians
• Jean Marie Roland de la Plati�re

Other important Girondists

• Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville - initial leader of the Gironde, hence their other designation as "Brissotins".
• Manon Jeanne Phlipon, (Madame Roland)
• Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud

Also associated with the Gironde

• Marquis de Condorcet - not properly a Girondist, but often associated with them.
• [[Pierre Claude Fran�ois Daunou]] - also not an actual member of the Gironde, but allied with them politically.
• Olympe de Gouges - advocate of gender equality.

The Montagne (Mountain)

See main article The Mountain

Members of the Committee of Public Safety

See main article Committee of Public Safety It is possible that some of these should not be listed as Montagnards; research needed.

• [[Bertrand Bar�re de Vieuzac]] - Earlier a Girondist, later a Bonapartist, drew up the 9 Thermidor report outlawing Robespierre.
• Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot - physicist
• Georges Couthon
• Georges Danton
• [[Marie Jean H�rault de S�chelles]]
• Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois (a.k.a. Prieur de la C�te-d'Or)
• Pierre Louis Prieur (a.k.a. Prieur de la Marne)
• Maximilien Robespierre
• [[Jean Bon Saint-Andr�]]
• [[Louis Antoine L�on de Saint-Just]]

Other Montagnards

• Camille Desmoulins
• Jean-Paul Marat
• [[Ph�lippeaux]

Hebertists

• [[Jacques H�bert]] - polemical writer, editor of [[Le P�re Duchesne ]]

Members of the Committee of Public Safety

See main article Committee of Public Safety

• Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne
• Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois

Other members of the Committee for Public Safety

It is possible that some of these should be listed as Montagnards; research needed.

• Cambon
• Lindet

Bonapartists

Napoleon and his retinue

• Napoleon I of France - General, then First Consul, then Emperor
• [[Jos�phine de Beauharnais]] - Empress, wife of Napoleon

Other Bonapartists

• [[Jean Jacques R�gis de Cambac�r�s]] (Second Consul)
• Joseph Fesch
• General Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, also known as an author
• General Charles Leclerc

Too fluid to classify

• [[Henri Gr�goire]] - revolutionary priest, supporter of Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
• Charles Maurice de Talleyrand - first a royalist, then one of the authors of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, eventually Foreign Minister under Napoleon.
• Abb� [[Emmanuel Joseph Siey�s]] - Although a member of the clergy, entered the 1789 Estates-General as a representative of the Third Estate. Author of pamphlet "What is the Third Estate?", later a Bonapartist.

Other revolutionary generals

• [[Charles Pierre Fran�ois Augereau]]
• Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte
• Louis-Alexandre Berthier
• Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune
• [[Jacques Fran�ois Dugommier]]
• Lazare Hoche
• [[Fran�ois Christophe Kellermann]]
• [[Jean-Baptiste Kl�ber]]
• Jean Lannes
• Jean Victor Marie Moreau
• Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux
• [[Fran�ois-S�verin Marceau]]

Other political figures

• LePeletier de Saint Fargeau - ex-noble, voted for the execution of Louis XVI, assassinated shortly thereafter.
• [[Philippe-Egalit�]] - voted for the execution of Louis XVI, his own cousin
• Jacques Roux (associated with Jacques H�bert)
• Honor�-Gabriel Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau - Although noble, entered the 1789 Estates-General as a representative of the Third Estate.
• Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target - lawyer, generally associated with Directory-era politics.

Writers

See also List of Historians of the French Revolution.

Philosophers who influenced the Revolution

• Denis Diderot -- Enlightenment author and atheist philosopher
• Montesquieu, political philosopher
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Jean-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire -- Enlightenment author, deist/agnostic philosopher

Polemical writers contemporary with the Revolution

• [[Fran�ois-No�l Babeuf]]
• Edmund Burke
• Thomas Paine
• [[Anne Louise Germaine de Sta�l|Madame de Sta�l]]

Other writers contemporary with the Revolution

This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of writers of the revolutionary period, just of those significantly involved in (or impacted by) the events of the Revolution.

• Marquis de Sade - erotic and philosophic author

Artists

• Jacques Louis David - painter
• Jean Antoine Houdon - sculptor

Others

• Charlotte Corday - assassin of Marat
• Joseph Cugnot - inventor
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb - major contributor to the metric system.
• [[Fabre d'�glantine]] - author of the names and months of the French Republican calendar
• [[Eleuth�re Ir�n�e du Pont|Eleuth�re Ir�n�e du Pont de Nemours]]
• Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
• Antoine Lavoisier - also a major contributor to the metric system, but executed for his role as a tax collector.
• Jacques-Donatien Le Ray - a key figure in engineering French support for the American Revolution, but an emigre during the French Revolution.
• Montgolfier brothers - balloonists, responsible for the first-ever aerial reconnaissance.

References

• Reference for membership of the Committee of Public Safety
• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_people_associated_with_the_French_Revolution" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_associated_with_the_French_Revolution, used under the GNU Free Documentation License