BILLAUD-VARENNE, JEAN NICOLAS

zhäk nēkōläˈ bēyōˈ-värĕnˈ, 1756–1819, French revolutionary. A violent antimonarchist in the Convention, the revolutionary national assembly, he and Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois were the two members of the ultrarevolutionary Hebértists (see Hébert, Jacques René) faction to sit on the Committee of Public Safety. A consumate politician, he survived the execution of Hébert, sucessfully intruiged against Georges Danton, and helped bring about the downfall of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor. He was deported to French Guiana for his role in the Reign of Terror. He refused an amnesty offered by Napoleon Bonaparte (later Emperor Napoleon I). Ultimately he went to Haiti, where he died.

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Victims, Authority, and Terror: The Parallel Deaths of d'orlaeans, Custine, Bailly, and Malesherbes
Book by George Armstrong Kelly; University of North Carolina Press, 1982
Subjects: Bailly, Jean Sylvain--1736-1793, Custine, Adam Philippe--comte de--1740-1793, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Biography, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes, Malesherbes, Chretien Guillaume de Lamoignon de--1721-1794, Orleans, Louis Philippe Joseph--duc d'--1747-1793
...aristocracy has not yet been destroyed." 42 "Citizens," Billaud-Varenne declared to the Jacobins on 9 June 1793, "do you sincerely...haughty and ambitious to please his Jacobin masters. Jean-Sylvain Bailly, a noted scientist and academician...
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The Oxford History of the French Revolution
Book by William Doyle; Oxford University Press, 1989
Subjects: Europe--History--1789-1815, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
...vilification of them as judicial murderers of the Protestant Jean Calas. * Provence shared Languedocs autonomous traditions...prices rose three times faster than wages. Workmen today, wrote Jean-Marie Roland, inspector of manufactures in Picardy in 1777...
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The Oxford History of the French Revolution
Book by William Doyle; Oxford University Press, 1990
Subjects: Europe--History--1789-1815, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
...vilification of them as judicial murderers of the Protestant Jean Calas. * Provence shared Languedocs autonomous traditions...prices rose three times faster than wages. Workmen today, wrote Jean-Marie Roland, inspector of manufactures in Picardy in 1777...
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The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions
Book by Arno J. Mayer; Princeton University Press, 2000
Subjects: France--History--Reign Of Terror, 1793-1794, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence, Political Violence--France, Political Violence--Soviet Union, Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Influence, Terror--Soviet Union
...counterrevolutionaries among them, came within the range of historical possibility at the time of the royal familys flight to Varennes in June 1791; the revolt of the VendeAeand the Federalist uprisings in 1793; and the royalist insurrection of the 13 VendeAmiaire...
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The Crowd in the French Revolution
Book by George Rudé; Oxford University Press, 1967
Subjects: Crowds--France, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Economic Aspects
...dArtois todays rue Laffitte , Taitbout, and Houssaye; and, farther eastwards still, followed the rues Martel, Richer, Saint-Nicolas, Montholon, de Buffault, and de Lancry. Near the Palais Royal, the Marquis de Chabanais and the Marquis de Louvois gave...
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Billaud-Varenne, Jean Nicolas
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BILLAUD-VARENNE, JEAN NICOLAS zhak nekola beyo -varen , 1756 1819, French revolutionary. A violent...antimonarchist in the Convention, the revolutionary national assembly, he and Jean Marie Collot dHerbois were the two members of the ultrarevolutionary...


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