Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David

male, deceased (1825)
Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the prominent painter of the era. In the...
Maximilien Robespierre

Maximilien Robespierre

male, deceased (1794)
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre is one of the best-known leaders of the French Revolution. His supporters knew him as The '...
Marquis de Condorcet

Marquis de Condorcet

male, deceased (1794)
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the...
Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

male, deceased (1809)
Thomas Paine (Thetford, England, 29 January 1737 - 8 June 1809, New York City, USA) was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, and intellectual....
Jean-Paul Marat

Jean-Paul Marat

male, deceased (1793)
Jean-Paul Marat (May 24, 1743 - July 13, 1793), was a Swiss-born French scientist and physician who made much of his career in Great Britain, but...
Roger Ducos

Roger Ducos

male, deceased (1816)
Pierre Roger Ducos (1747-1816), better known as Roger Ducos, was a French political figure during the Revolution and First Empire, a member of the...
Marquis de Sade

Marquis de Sade

male, deceased (1814)
Donatien Alphonse-François de Sade (pronounced) was a French aristocrat and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography. He was a p...
Jacques Pierre Brissot

Jacques Pierre Brissot

male, deceased (1795)
Jacques Pierre Brissot (January 15, 1754 - October 31, 1793), who assumed the name of de Warville, was a leading member of the Girondist movement...

Pierre-Joseph Cambon

male, deceased (1820)
Pierre-Joseph Cambon (June 10 1756-February 15 1820) was a French statesman. Born in Montpellier, Cambon was the son of a wealthy cotton merchant....