MALESHERBES GUILLAUME-CHRÉTIEN DE LAMOIGNON DE: (1721-1794) French Statesman. Counsel for the defence of Louis XVI, he had the painful task to inf...

FOUQUIER-TINVILLE ANTOINE QUENTIN: (1746-1795) French Revolutionary and Prosecutor during the Revolution and Reign of Terror periods. Sentenced to...

MIRABEAU COMTE DE: (1749-1791) Honore Gabriel Riqueti. French nobleman and orator, a leader of the early stages of the French Revolution. A.L.S., ...

BAILLY JEAN SYLVAIN: (1736-1793) French Astronomer, Mathematician and political Leader of the French Revolution. Guillotined during the Reign of T...

Guillotin seeks additional information on ‘the restoration of the art of healing’  GUILLOTIN JOSEPH-IGNACE: (1738-1814) French physician whose nam...

DESGROUETTES PÉPIN: (?-1805) Pierre Athanase Desgrouettes, also called Des Grouettes, was one of the most odious figures of the French revolution ...

[FRENCH REVOLUTION]: D.S. by three administrators of the Directoire du Departement de Paris, comprising Etienne Jean Baptiste Maillard, Alexis Hou...

BARAGUEY D'HILLIERS LOUIS: (1764-1813) French General who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. L.S., L. B. D'Hilliers,...

BARRAS PAUL: (1755-1829) French politician of the French Revolution, the main executive leader of the Directory regime of 1795-99. An intimate fri...

VINCENT FRANCOIS-NICOLAS: (1766/67-1794) French radical, Secretary General of the War Ministry in the First French Republic, a significant figure ...

[DE LA CATHELINIERE LOUIS-FRANCOIS RIPAULT]: (1768-1794) French military officer who participated in the War in the Vendee alongside the Royalist ...

SIJAS PROSPER: (1759-1794) French chief of the offices of the Ministry of War, adjutant to Jean Baptiste Noel Bouchotte, the Minister of War 1793-...

COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY: A very fine multiple signed letter, one page, 4to, Paris, 13th February 1795, in French. The partially printed documen...

[FRENCH REVOLUTION]: LACOMBE-SAINT-MICHEL JEAN-PIERRE (1751-1812) French General in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic armies. A.L.S., J P La...

[REIGN OF TERROR]: COMMITTEE OF GENERAL SECURITY: A good D.S. by nine members of the final Committee of General Security individually, comprising ...

PALLOY PIERRE-FRANCOIS: (1755-1835) French entrepreneurial building contractor, remembered for the demolition of the Bastille following the stormi...

LE BLOND DE SAINT-HILAIRE LOUIS: (1766-1809) French Cavalry General. Count of Saint Hilaire. Killed at the Essling battle. Napoleon ordered his bu...

CADOUDAL GEORGES: (1771-1804) French General, leader of the Chouannerie during the French Revolution. Executed by guillotine and posthumously made...

ROUGET DE LISLE CLAUDE: (1760-1836) French Officer of the French Revolutionary wars. Best known for being the creator of the words and music of th...

ROUGET DE LISLE CLAUDE JOSEPH: (1760-1836) French military officer during the French Revolutionary Wars, author of the words and music for the Fre...

LAFAYETTE MARQUIS DE: (1757-1834) Gilbert du Motier. French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War and was a...