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Also Known As Merlin de Douai
Born October 30, 1754 • France
Died December 26, 1838 (aged 84) • Paris • France
Title / Office Directory (1797-1799), France • Committee of Public Safety (1794-1795), France • National Convention (1792-1795), France
Subjects Of Study French law • Napoleonic Code
Role In French Revolution
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
French revolutionary
Talleyrand
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent
French statesman and diplomat
Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Jacques-Louis David
French painter
Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti
Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
French politician and orator
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian and political writer
Georges Danton
Georges Danton
French revolutionary leader
Louis de Saint-Just
Louis de Saint-Just
French revolutionary
Lazare Carnot, lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, after an engraving by C.A. Forestier
Lazare Carnot
French military engineer
Bosio, Jean-Baptiste-François: Portrait of Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
French philosopher and humanist
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat
French politician, physician, and journalist
Fouché, engraving, 19th century
Joseph Fouché, duc d’Otrante
French statesman
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, engraving by J.-A. Allais, 19th century.
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
French politician
Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, undated lithograph.
Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, vicomte de Barras
French revolutionary
Desmoulins, Camille
Camille Desmoulins
French journalist
François-Noël Babeuf, engraving by an unknown artist, 18th century.
François-Noël Babeuf
French political journalist
Barnave, Antoine
Antoine Barnave
French politician
Jacques-Pierre Brissot
French revolutionary leader
Henri Grégoire
French prelate
Dumouriez, detail of a portrait by J. Rouillard; in the National Museum of Versailles and Trianons
Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez
French general