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Louis XVI

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  • Relocated to Tuileries Palace
  • Failed to ratify new laws (Including CCoC)
  • Flight to Varennes
  • Tuileries Palace Invasions
  • Trial and Execution
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Danton

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  • Member of the Cordeliers
  • The Terror
  • 1793: a member of the Committee of Public Safety
  • Advocated for end of Terror
  • April 1794: Guillotined by Robespierre
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Marat

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  • Founded radical newspaper (L’Ami du Peuple)
  • Prompted a populist militancy
  • Supporter of and hero to sans-culottes
  • Killed 13 July 1793
  • Stabbed to death by Charlotte Corday
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Robespierre

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  • The “Incorruptible”
  • Supported a constitutional monarchy
  • President of the Jacobin Club
  • Believed in the value of vertu
  • Vertu is: Devotion to family, Devotion to work, Devotion to the ideals of revolution, Commitment to eliminate enemies of vertu
  • Law of Self-Denying Ordinance
  • The Terror
  • Supported Law of Suspects
  • The Thermidorian Reaction (executed 27-28 July 1794
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Lafayette

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  • Member of the Jacobin Club (Left in 1790)
  • Founded Feuillants Cub
  • Blamed for Champ de Mars Massacre
  • Defects to Austria (19 Aug 1792) after failing to start a counter-rev
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