List of people associated with the French Revolution

This is a partial list of people involved in the French Revolution. It includes both supporters and opponents of the revolution.

For a list of groups and factions, see Glossary of the French Revolution.

Inevitably, many individuals here played multiple roles. For example, the Bonapartist General Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was an active Jacobin and associated, to some degree with both the Girondists and the Montagne. (He was also a prominent author.) As a rule, the best place to clarify these complexities is in the article on the individual in question.

Table of contents

1 Royalists

1.1 Bourbon Royalty
1.2 Royal Ministers
1.3 Other Royalists

2 Feuillants
3 The Gironde

3.4 Girondist ministers
3.5 Other important Girondists
3.6 Also associated with the Gironde

4 The Montagne (Mountain)

4.7 Members of the Committee of Public Safety

5 Other Montagnards
6 Hebertists

6.8 Members of the Committee of Public Safety

7 Other members of the Committee for Public Safety
8 Bonapartists

8.9 Napoleon and his retinue
8.10 Other Bonapartists

9 Too fluid to classify
10 Other political and military figures
11 Writers

11.11 Philosophers who influenced the Revolution
11.12 Polemical writers contemporary with the Revolution
11.13 Other writers contemporary with the Revolution

12 Artists
13 Others
14 References

Royalists

In this context, "royalist" refers specifically to supporters of the Bourbon monarchy (not to Bonapartistss).

Feuillants

See main article Feuillant.

Marquis de la Fayette

The Gironde

See main article Girondist.

Girondist ministers

�tienne Clavi�re
General Charles Fran�ois Dumouriez, eventually defected to the Austrians
Jean Marie Roland de la Plati�re

Other important Girondists

Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville - initial leader of the Gironde, hence their other designation as "Brissotins".
Manon Jeanne Phlipon, (Madame Roland)
Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud

Also associated with the Gironde

Marquis de Condorcet - not properly a Girondist, but often associated with them.
Pierre Claude Fran�ois Daunou - also not an actual member of the Gironde, but allied with them politically.
Olympe de Gouges - advocate of gender equality.

The Montagne (Mountain)

See main article The Mountain

Members of the Committee of Public Safety

See main article Committee of Public Safety It is possible that some of these should not be listed as Montagnards; research needed.

Bertrand Bar�re de Vieuzac - Earlier a Girondist, later a Bonapartist, drew up the 9 Thermidor report outlawing Robespierre.
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot - physicist
Georges Couthon
Georges Danton
Marie Jean H�rault de S�chelles
Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois (a.k.a. Prieur de la C�te-d'Or)
Pierre Louis Prieur (a.k.a. Prieur de la Marne)
Maximilien Robespierre
Jean Bon Saint-Andr�
Louis Antoine L�on de Saint-Just

Other Montagnards

Hebertists

Jacques H�bert - polemical writer, editor of Le P�re Duchesne

Members of the Committee of Public Safety

See main article Committee of Public Safety

Other members of the Committee for Public Safety

It is possible that some of these should be listed as Montagnards; research needed.

Cambon
Lindet

Bonapartists

Napoleon and his retinue

Napoleon I of France - Emperor
Jos�phine de Beauharnais - Empress

Other Bonapartists

Jean Jacques R�gis de Cambac�r�s (Second Consul)
Joseph Fesch
General Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, also known as an author
General Charles Leclerc

Too fluid to classify

Henri Gr�goire - revolutionary priest, supporter of Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand - first a royalist, then one of the authors of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, eventually Foreign Minister under Napoleon.
Abb� Emmanuel Joseph Siey�s - Although a member of the clergy, entered the 1789 Estates-General as a representative of the Third Estate. Author of pamphlet "What is the Third Estate?", later a Bonapartist.

Other political and military figures

General Jacques Fran�ois Coquille Dugommier

LePeletier de Saint Fargeau - ex-noble, voted for the execution of Louis XVI, assassinated shortly thereafter.

Philippe-Egalit� - voted for the execution of Louis XVI, his own cousin
Jacques Roux (associated with Jacques H�bert)
Honor�-Gabriel Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau - Although noble, entered the 1789 Estates-General as a representative of the Third Estate.
Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target - lawyer, generally associated with Directory-era politics.

Writers

See also List of Historians of the French Revolution.

Philosophers who influenced the Revolution

Denis Diderot -- Enlightenment author and atheist philosopher
Montesquieu, political philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire -- Enlightenment author, deist/agnostic philosopher

Polemical writers contemporary with the Revolution

Other writers contemporary with the Revolution

This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of writers of the revolutionary period, just of those significantly involved in (or impacted by) the events of the Revolution.

Marquis de Sade - erotic and philosophic author

Artists

Jacques Louis David - painter
Jean Antoine Houdon - sculptor

Others

Charlotte Corday - assassin of Marat
Joseph Cugnot - inventor
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb - major contributor to the metric system.
Eleuth�re Ir�n�e du Pont de Nemours
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
Antoine Lavoisier - also a major contributor to the metric system, but executed for his role as a tax collector.
Jacques-Donatien Le Ray - a key figure in engineering French support for the American Revolution, but an emigre during the French Revolution.
Montgolfier brothers - balloonists, responsible for the first-ever aerial reconnaissance.

References

Reference for membership of the Committee of Public Safety