People of the Revolution and the USSR
Political and party leadership
Jacobins and French revolutionary radicals
The Revolution and the Napoleonic era 1774–1830
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- Jean-Paul Marat Jean-Paul Marat Radical journalist and publisher of L’Ami du peuple
- Charles-Philippe Ronsin Charles-Philippe Ronsin Hébertist general who commanded the Parisian Revolutionary Army
- Jacques Roux Jacques Roux Enragé priest who demanded controls on subsistence prices
- Jacques René Hébert Jacques René Hébert Revolutionary journalist whose Le Père Duchesne spoke to a sans-culotte readership
- Maximilien Robespierre Maximilien Robespierre Jacobin politician who argued for subsistence rights and revolutionary government
- Georges Danton Georges Jacques Danton Revolutionary leader associated with the Cordeliers and Indulgents
- Camille Desmoulins Camille Desmoulins Revolutionary journalist associated with both the Bastille rising and Indulgents
- Pierre Gaspard Chaumette Pierre Gaspard Chaumette Paris Commune prosecutor prominent in dechristianisation
- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Committee of Public Safety member and theorist of revolutionary government