Three-Book Edition: A Place of Greater Safety; Beyond Black; The Giant O’Brien. Hilary Mantel

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Arcis-sur-Aube:

      Marie-Madeleine Danton, a widow, who marries

      Jean Recordain, an inventor

      Georges-Jacques, her son (b. 1759)

      Anne Madeleine, her daughter

      Pierrette, her daughter

      Marie-Cécile, her daughter, who becomes a nun

      In Arras:

      François de Robespierre, a lawyer

      Maximilien, his son (b. 1758)

      Charlotte, his daughter

      Henriette, his daughter (died aged nineteen)

      Augustin, his younger son

      Jacqueline, his wife, née Carraut, who dies after giving birth to a fifth child

      Grandfather Carraut, a brewer

      Aunt Eulalie

       Aunt Henriette} François de Robespierre’s sisters

      In Paris, at Louis-le-Grand:

      Father Poignard, the principal – a liberal minded man

      Father Proyart, the deputy principal – not at all a liberal-minded man

      Father Herivaux, a teacher of classical languages

      Louis Suleau, a student

      Stanislas Fréron, a very well-connected student, known as ‘Rabbit’

      In Troyes:

      Fabre d’Églantine, an unemployed genius

      PART II

      In Paris:

      Maître Vinot, a lawyer in whose chambers Georges-Jacques Danton is a pupil

      Maître Perrin, a lawyer in whose chambers Camille Desmoulins is a pupil

      Jean-Marie Hérault de Séchelles, a young nobleman and legal dignitary

      François-Jérôme Charpentier, a café owner and Inspector of Taxes

      Angélique (Angelica) his Italian wife

      Gabrielle, his daughter

      Françoise-Julie Duhauttoir, Georges-Jacques Danton’s mistress

      At the rue Condé:

      Claude Duplessis, a senior civil servant

      Annette, his wife

      Adèle

       Lucile} his daughters

      Abbé Laudréville, Annette’s confessor, a go-between

      In Guise:

      Rose-Fleur Godard, Camille Desmoulins’s fiancée

      In Arras:

      Joseph Fouché, a teacher, Charlotte de Robespierre’s beau

      Lazare Carnot, a military engineer, a friend of Maximilien de Robespierre

      Anaïs Deshorties, a nice girl whose relatives want her to marry Maximilien de Robespierre

      Louise de Kéralio, a novelist: who goes to Paris, marries François Robert and edits a newspaper

      Hermann, a lawyer, a friend of Maximilien de Robespierre

      The Orléanists:

      Philippe, Duke of Orléans, cousin of King Louis XVI

      Félicité de Genlis, an author – his ex-mistress, now Governor of his children

      Charles-Alexis Brulard de Sillery, Comte de Genlis – Félicité’s husband, a former naval officer, a gambler

      Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, a novelist, the Duke’s secretary

      Agnès de Buffon, the Duke’s mistress

      Grace Elliot, the Duke’s ex-mistress, a spy for the British Foreign Office

      Axel von Fersen, the Queen’s lover

      At Danton’s chambers:

      Jules Paré, his clerk

      François Deforgues, his clerk

      Billaud-Varennes, his part-time clerk, a man of sour temperament

      At the Cour du Commerce:

      Mme Gély, who lives upstairs from Georges-Jacques and Gabrielle Danton

      Antoine, her husband

      Louise, her daughter

      Catherine

       Marie} the Dantons’ servants

      Legendre, a master butcher, a neighbour of the Dantons

      François Robert, a lecturer in law: marries Louise de Kéralio, opens a delicatessen, and later becomes a radical journalist

      René Hébert, a theatre box-office clerk

      Anne Théroigne, a singer

      In the National Assembly:

      Antoine Barnave, a deputy: at first a radical, later a royalist

      Jérôme Pétion, a radical deputy, later called a ‘Brissotin’

      Dr Guillotin, an expert on public health

      Jean-Sylvain Bailly, an astronomer, later Mayor of Paris.

      Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau, a renegade aristocrat sitting for the Commons, or Third Estate

      Teutch, Mirabeau’s valet

      Clavière

       Dumont

       Duroveray} His ‘slaves’, Genevan politicans in exile

      Jean-Pierre Brissot, a journalist

      Momoro, a printer

      Réveillon, owner of a wallpaper factory

      Hanriot, owner of a saltpetre works

      De Launay, Governor of the Bastille

      PART III

      M. Soulès, temporary Governor of the Bastille

      The Marquis

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