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
Vadier, known as ‘the Inquisitor’, a member of the Police Committee
Implicated in the East India Company fraud:
Chabot, a deputy, ex-Capuchin friar
Julien, a deputy, former Protestant pastor
Proli, secretary to Hérault de Séchelles, and said to be an Austrian spy
Emmanuel Dobruska and Siegmund Gotleb, known as Emmanuel and Junius Frei: speculators
Guzman, a minor politician, Spanish-born
Diedrichsen, a Danish ‘businessman’
Abbé d’Espanac, a crooked army contractor
Basire
Delaunay} deputies
Citizen de Sade, a writer, formerly a marquis
Pierre Philippeaux, a deputy: writes a pamphlet against the government during the Terror
Some members of the Committee of Public Safety:
Saint-André
Barère
Couthon, a paraplegic, a friend of Robespierre
Robert Lindet, a lawyer from Normandy, a friend of Danton
Etienne Panis, a left-wing deputy, a friend of Danton
At the trial of the Dantonists:
Hermann (once of Arras), President of the Revolutionary
Tribunal
Dumas, his deputy
Fouquier-Tinville, now Public Prosecutor
Fleuriot
Liendon} prosecution lawyers
Fabricius Pâris, Clerk of the Court
Laflotte, a prison informer
Henri Sanson, public executioner
Map of Revolutionary Paris
PART ONE
LOUIS XV is named the Well-Beloved. Ten years pass. The same people believe the Well-Beloved takes baths of human blood…Avoiding Paris, ever shut up at Versailles, he finds even there too many people, too much daylight. He wants a shadowy retreat…
In a year of scarcity (they were not uncommon then) he was hunting as usual in the Forest of Sénart. He met a peasant carrying a bier and inquired, ‘Whither he was conveying it?’ ‘To such a place.’ ‘For a man or a woman?’ ‘A man.’ ‘What did he die of?’ ‘Hunger.’
Jules Michelet
I. Life as a
