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
