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Antoine de Sartine

His son Charles Marie Antoine de Sartine, born in 1760, who was maître des requêtes from the age of 20 until 1791 and chose to stay in France, was arrested in 1794, sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal, and guillotined on June 17 of that year along with his 19-year-old wife and his mother-in-law the comtesse de Sainte-Amaranthe.

Champ de Mars

Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first mayor of Paris, became a victim of his own revolution and was guillotined there on 12 November 1793.

La Ferté-Vidame

At the French Revolution the seigneur was Jean-Joseph de Laborde, an ennobled business man with progressive views, who was to be guillotined in 1794.

Les Illuminés

It includes a fine portrait and evaluation of French writer Jacques Cazotte, author of The devil in love, who inspired E. T. A. Hoffmann and Charles Nodier, and who was unjustly guillotined during the French revolution in his 70s.

Marcel Chevalier

Hamida Djandoubi for having tortured and strangled his former girlfriend was guillotined on 10 September 1977 in Marseilles.

Martial Joseph Armand Herman

Martial Joseph Armand Herman (August 29, 1749, Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise – May 7, 1795, Paris) (guillotined), was a politician of the French Revolution, and temporary French Foreign Minister.


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