A Place of Greater Safety. Hilary Mantel

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      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

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His ‘slaves’, Genevan politicians 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 de Lafayette, Commander of the National Guard

      Jean-Paul Marat, a journalist, editor of the People’s Friend

      Arthur Dillon, Governor of Tobago and a general in the French army; a friend of Camille Desmoulins

      Louis-Sébastien Mercier, a well-known author

      Collot d’Herbois, a playwright

      Father Pancemont, a truculent priest

      Father Bérardier, a gullible priest

      Caroline Rémy, an actress

      Père Duchesne, a furnace-maker: fictitious alter ego of René. Hébert, box-office clerk turned journalist

      Antoine Saint-Just, a disaffected poet, acquainted with or related to Camille Desmoulins

      Jean-Marie Roland, an elderly ex-civil servant

      Manon Roland, his young wife, a writer

      François-Léonard Buzot, a deputy, member of the Jacobin Club and friend of the Rolands

      Jean-Baptiste Louvet, a novelist, Jacobin, friend of the Rolands

      PART IV

       At the rue Saint-Honoré:

      Maurice Duplay, a master carpenter

      Françoise Duplay, his wife

      Eléonore, an art student, his eldest daughter

      Victoire, his daughter

      Elisabeth (Babette), his youngest daughter

      Charles Dumouriez, a general, sometime Foreign Minister

      Antoine Fouquier-Tinville, a lawyer; Camille Desmoulins’s cousin

      Jeanette, the Desmoulins’s servant

      PART V

       Politicians described as ‘Brissotins’ or ‘Girondins’:

      Jean-Pierre Brissot, a journalist

      Jean-Marie and Manon Roland

      Pierre Vergniaud, member of the National Convention, famous as an orator

      Jérôme Pétion

      François-Léonard Buzot

      Jean-Baptiste Louvet

      Charles Barbaroux, a lawyer from Marseille and many others

      Albertine Marat, Marat’s sister

      Simone Evrard, Marat’s common-law wife

      Defermon, a deputy, sometime President of the National Convention

      Jean-François Lacroix, a moderate deputy: goes ‘on mission’ to Belgium with Danton in 1792 and 1793

      David, a painter

      Charlotte Corday, an assassin

      Claude Dupin, a young bureaucrat who proposes marriage to Louise Gély, Danton’s neighbour

      Souberbielle, Robespierre’s doctor

      Renaudin, a violin-maker, prone to violence

      Father Kéravenen, an outlaw priest

      Chauveau-Lagarde, a lawyer: defence council for Marie-Antoinette

      Philippe Lebas, a left-wing deputy: later a member of the Committee of General Security, or Police Committee; marries Babette Duplay

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