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Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (French pronunciation:; 25 August 1767 – 9 Thermidor, Year II [28 July 1794]), sometimes nicknamed the Archangel of Terror, was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention, a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the French Revolution.
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Louis-Antoine-Léon de Saint-Just was born on 25 August 1767 in Decize, a commune in central France. He was the eldest child of Louis-Jean de Saint-Just de Richebourg, a retired cavalry officer, and Marie-Anne Robinot, daughter of a wealthy notary, and had two younger sisters. In 1776, the family moved to the rural town of Blérancourt, in his father...
Saint-Just arrived in Paris in May 1789, the same month that France's social tensions and financial troubles finally boiled over. He managed to get Organt published, although it was an instant failure; when the book was banned and police were sent to confiscate it from bookstores, they found that most stores had already declined to sell it. Saint-J...
After the king's attempted flight, tensions between the people and the monarchy continued to simmer. Finally, on 10 August 1792, the people of Paris overthrew the monarchy in the Storming of the Tuileries Palace. A new representative body, called the National Convention, was summoned to write a new constitution for the now kingless France. Having o...
With the king dead and the Girondins in prison, the Jacobins could finally work on giving France a new constitution. On 24 April 1793, Saint-Just submitted a lengthy proposal that included the right to petition, universal suffrage, and called for elections to be decided by a simple majority. His ideas impressed his colleagues, who assigned him and ...
Saint-Just agreed with Robespierre that Terror was needed to create a virtuous Republic and professed to believe that the blood of counter-revolutionaries must necessarily be spilled. In October 1793, he prepared the death sentences for the Girondin leaders, who were guillotined after a sham trial. When his and Robespierre's control of the Terror w...
In the spring of 1794, Saint-Just was sent on several missions to Belgium, where he was instructed to reinvigorate the Army of the North. His efforts contributed to the French victory at the Battle of Fleurus on 26 June 1794, which was arguably the turning point in the War of the First Coalition (1792-1797); afterwards, the French remained victorio...
Louis de Saint-Just (born August 25, 1767, Decize, France—died July 28, 1794, Paris) was a controversial ideologue of the French Revolution, one of the most zealous advocates of the Reign of Terror (1793–94), who was arrested and guillotined in the Thermidorian Reaction.
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Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, parfois surnommé l' Archange de la Terreur, né le 25 août 1767 à Decize ( Nivernais, aujourd'hui Nièvre) et mort guillotiné le 10 thermidor an II ( 28 juillet 1794) à Paris, place de la Révolution (actuelle place de la Concorde ), est un homme politique français de la Révolution française.
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ʒyst]; August 25, 1767 – 9 Thermidor, Year II [July 28, 1794]), was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention, a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the French Revolution.
Louis Saint-Just (1767-1794) was a radical Jacobin, a member of the National Convention and the young ally of Maximilien Robespierre. As a teenager, Saint-Just was intelligent and well read but restless, promiscuous and disobedient.
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Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, sometimes nicknamed the Archangel of Terror, was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention, a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the French Revolution.
