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French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution

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Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1792. She was beheaded in 1793, during the Reign of Terror, a period of political violence in the French Revolution.

Maximilien Robespierre

French revolutionary lawyer and politician (1758–1794)

Antoine Lavoisier

French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)

Louis XVI of France

King of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1791, then King of the French from 1791 to 1792 (1754-1793)

French revolutionary (1759–1794)

Olympe de Gouges

French playwright and political activist (1748–1793)

André Chénier

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Philosopher, military and political leader (1767-1794)

French revolutionary

François-Noël Babeuf

French political agitator and journalist (1760-1797)

Charlotte Corday

figure of the French Revolution (1768-1793)

Madame du Barry

French noblewoman by marriage (1743–1793), last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774)

Camille Desmoulins

French journalist, politician and revolutionary (1760-1794)

Jacques Hébert

French journalist and politician

Jacques Pierre Brissot

French revolutionary (1754–1793)

Jean Sylvain Bailly

French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)

Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans

French duke (1747-1793)

Georges Couthon

French politician and lawyer (1755–1794)

Princess Élisabeth of France

French Princess, Sister of King Louis XVI, Martyr and Servant of God

Alexandre de Beauharnais

French general; president of the National Constituent Assembly in 1791 (1760–1794)

Jacques Cazotte

Augustin Robespierre

French lawyer and revolutionary (1763-1794)

Fabre d'Églantine

French actor (1750-1794)

Pierre Vergniaud

French politician (1753-1793)

Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

French statesman (1721-1794)

Antoine Barnave

French politician (1761-1793)

Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville

French lawyer during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror (1746-1795)

Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette

French politician (1763-1794)

Jean-Baptiste Carrier

French revolutionary (1756-1799)

Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing

French admiral during the War of American Independence (1729-1794)

François Hanriot

French general and revolutionary (1759–1794)

Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine

French general (1740-1793)

Armand Louis de Gontaut

French general (1747-1793)

Lucile Desmoulins

French revolutionary

François Joseph Westermann

Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles

French judge and politician (1759-1794)

Isaac René Guy le Chapelier

French politician (1754-1794)

Rosalie Filleul

French painter (1752-1794)

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel

Catholic Constitutional Archbishop of Paris (1727-1794)

François Chabot

French politician (1756-1794)

Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux

French politician (1767-1794)

Jean-Antoine Roucher

French poet (1745-1794)

Marguerite-Élie Guadet

French politician (1758-1794)

Nicolas Jacques Pelletier

French highwayman

Antoine-François Momoro

publisher during the French Revolution

French noblewoman

Irish general in French service (1750-1794)

Cécile Renault

French royalist

Jean-Benjamin de La Borde

French composer, patron, writer and fermier général (1734–1794)

Simon-Nicholas Henri Linguet

French journalist

Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne

French pastor & politician (1743-1793)

Charles-Philippe Ronsin

French newspaper founder (1751–1794)

Jean Nicolas Houchard

Philippe de Noailles

Marshal of France (1715–1794)

Armand Gensonné

French Revolution politician (1758-1793)

French shoemaker and revolutionary

Jean-Frédéric Edelmann

French composer (1749–1794)

Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille

French architect (1728–1794)

François-Nicolas Vincent

French revolutionary (1767-1794)