“activities were part of a foreign plot against the government. The accused were sent to face the Revolutionary Tribunal. Saint-Just vowed,”
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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, sometimes nicknamed the Archangel of Terror, was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention, a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the French Revolution. The youngest person elected to the National Convention, he was a member of the Mountain faction and a steadfast supporter and close friend of Maxi…
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culture · French revolutionary politician (1767–1794) · politician · writer · revolutionary · poet · also Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Louis Florelle de Saint-Just, Saint-Just
Born 25 August 1767 · Died 28 July 1794 · Q27764
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1951· 1 entry
Under the title "Un manuscrit oublié de Saint-Just" in the Annales historiques de la révolution française, No
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1794· 8 entries
Died 1794-07-28.
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“It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.”
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“Travaillons enfin pour le bonheur du peuple, et que les legislateurs qui doivent éclairer le monde prennent leur course d'un pied hardi, comme le soleil.”
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Career landmark: President of the National Convention (1794–1794).
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“Report on Incarcerated Persons. Presented on behalf of the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security to the National Convention at the session of 8 Ventôse, Year II (26 February 1794).”
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“Citizens, by what illusion could one persuade himself that you are inhuman. Your Revolutionary Tribunal has condemned three hundred rascals to death in a year. Has not the Spanish Inquisition done worse than that ... Have the English assizes butchered no one in that period? ... What of the kings of Europe, does anyone prate to them of pity? Ah, do not allow yourselves to grow soft-hearted!”
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“Osez! — ce mot renferme toute la politique de notre révolution.”
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“Let Revolutionists be Romans, not Tatars.”
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1792· 1 entry
Career landmark: deputy to the National Convention (1792–1794).
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1767· 1 entry
Born 1767-08-25.
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