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Authors: Jonathan Israel
months in Rennes, reappeared in the Convention in 1795 and participated in drafting the 1795 constitution. Opposed the coup of Fructidor, Napoleon, and Louis XVIII.
Lanthenas, François Xavier (1754–1799), physician, educationalist, and translator of Tom Paine, a protogé of Roland prominent among the Brissotin faction. After Thermidor, secretary of the Convention and until 1797 a leading critic of the Directory.
La Revellière-Lépeaux, Louis-Marie de (1753–1824), fervent anti-Catholic republican and egalitarian idealist from Angers. A Commission de Douze member forced to hide during the Terror, reappeared in the Convention in March 1795. Among the drafters of the 1795 constitution, was afterwards elected one of the five directors. Backed the coup of Fructidor (1797), patronized the deistic sect of the Théophilanthropes.
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743–1794), the eighteenth century’s greatest chemist, also an agronomist and among the weights and measures reformers during the Revolution who introduced the kilogram. A keen supporter of the “real” Revolution, was guillotined in Paris on 8 May 1794. From 1795, became the object of the republican cult of the “martyred” scientist.
Le Bon, Joseph (1765–1795), Oratorian priest who renounced the priesthood after 10 August 1792 and became mayor of Arras. A friend of Robespierre, uninterested in revolutionary issues and ideas, directed the Terror in Arras and the Pas-de-Calais with pathological ferocity. Guillotined in Amiens for his crimes, 16 October 1795.
Lebrun-Tondu, Pierre (1754–1793), journalist, leader of the Liège revolution of 1789, and vigorous critic of Belgian conservatism. Exiled in Paris and close to Brissot and Roland, he became the Republic’s Foreign Affairs minister in August 1792. A prominent internationalist republican and critic of Marat and Robespierre, guillotined in Paris on 27 December 1793.
Le Chapelier, Isaac René (1754–1794), participated in drafting many of the National Assembly’s legislative enactments in 1789–91. Prominent in the Feuillant defection from the Jacobins. Denounced for modérantisme, guillotined in Paris 22 April 1794.
Lepeletier (de Saint-Fargeau), Ferdinand (1767–1837), younger brother of Louis-Michel, fervent Jacobin nobleman and participant in Babeuf’s Conspiracy of Equals. An active opponent of Napoleon’s dictatorship, was expelled from France first by Napoleon and then by Louis XVIII.
Lepeletier, Louis-Michel (1760–1793), leading magistrate of the Paris parlement before 1789, defected from the nobility in the 1789 Estates-General and vociferously supported abolition of noble titles in June 1790. After voting for the king’s execution, was assassinated in a Paris restaurant a few days before Louis was guillotined, becoming the object of an extravagant Montagnard heroic martyr cult.
Lequinio, Marie-Joseph (1755–1814), lawyer, landowner, and promoter of peasant adult education, a leaders of Jacobin de-Christianization on the French west coast in 1793–94 and a rapacious director of the Terror in La Rochelle and Rochefort. After Thermidor, escaped punishment in hiding. Under Napoleon, spent several years as French vice-consul in Newport, Rhode Island.
Levasseur, René (1747–1834), Jacobin surgeon and Marat disciple, among the Convention’s fiercest anti-Brissotins. Loyal to Robespierre, the latter considered him insufficiently ruthless. After Thermidor, a leading Jacobin critic of the Thermidorian reaction. Implicated in the Germinal rising (April 1795), was imprisoned for some months in 1795.
Lindet, Robert (1746–1825), lawyer and mayor of Bernay, elected to the Convention, voted onto the Committee of Public Safety in April 1793. A Jacobin leader discreetly hostile to Robespierre, tried to save Danton in April 1794. Imprisoned after Thermidor, following his release joined Babeuf’s Conspiracy of Equals.
Louis XVII (1785–1795), France’s dauphin after his older brother’s
Lanthenas, François Xavier (1754–1799), physician, educationalist, and translator of Tom Paine, a protogé of Roland prominent among the Brissotin faction. After Thermidor, secretary of the Convention and until 1797 a leading critic of the Directory.
La Revellière-Lépeaux, Louis-Marie de (1753–1824), fervent anti-Catholic republican and egalitarian idealist from Angers. A Commission de Douze member forced to hide during the Terror, reappeared in the Convention in March 1795. Among the drafters of the 1795 constitution, was afterwards elected one of the five directors. Backed the coup of Fructidor (1797), patronized the deistic sect of the Théophilanthropes.
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743–1794), the eighteenth century’s greatest chemist, also an agronomist and among the weights and measures reformers during the Revolution who introduced the kilogram. A keen supporter of the “real” Revolution, was guillotined in Paris on 8 May 1794. From 1795, became the object of the republican cult of the “martyred” scientist.
Le Bon, Joseph (1765–1795), Oratorian priest who renounced the priesthood after 10 August 1792 and became mayor of Arras. A friend of Robespierre, uninterested in revolutionary issues and ideas, directed the Terror in Arras and the Pas-de-Calais with pathological ferocity. Guillotined in Amiens for his crimes, 16 October 1795.
Lebrun-Tondu, Pierre (1754–1793), journalist, leader of the Liège revolution of 1789, and vigorous critic of Belgian conservatism. Exiled in Paris and close to Brissot and Roland, he became the Republic’s Foreign Affairs minister in August 1792. A prominent internationalist republican and critic of Marat and Robespierre, guillotined in Paris on 27 December 1793.
Le Chapelier, Isaac René (1754–1794), participated in drafting many of the National Assembly’s legislative enactments in 1789–91. Prominent in the Feuillant defection from the Jacobins. Denounced for modérantisme, guillotined in Paris 22 April 1794.
Lepeletier (de Saint-Fargeau), Ferdinand (1767–1837), younger brother of Louis-Michel, fervent Jacobin nobleman and participant in Babeuf’s Conspiracy of Equals. An active opponent of Napoleon’s dictatorship, was expelled from France first by Napoleon and then by Louis XVIII.
Lepeletier, Louis-Michel (1760–1793), leading magistrate of the Paris parlement before 1789, defected from the nobility in the 1789 Estates-General and vociferously supported abolition of noble titles in June 1790. After voting for the king’s execution, was assassinated in a Paris restaurant a few days before Louis was guillotined, becoming the object of an extravagant Montagnard heroic martyr cult.
Lequinio, Marie-Joseph (1755–1814), lawyer, landowner, and promoter of peasant adult education, a leaders of Jacobin de-Christianization on the French west coast in 1793–94 and a rapacious director of the Terror in La Rochelle and Rochefort. After Thermidor, escaped punishment in hiding. Under Napoleon, spent several years as French vice-consul in Newport, Rhode Island.
Levasseur, René (1747–1834), Jacobin surgeon and Marat disciple, among the Convention’s fiercest anti-Brissotins. Loyal to Robespierre, the latter considered him insufficiently ruthless. After Thermidor, a leading Jacobin critic of the Thermidorian reaction. Implicated in the Germinal rising (April 1795), was imprisoned for some months in 1795.
Lindet, Robert (1746–1825), lawyer and mayor of Bernay, elected to the Convention, voted onto the Committee of Public Safety in April 1793. A Jacobin leader discreetly hostile to Robespierre, tried to save Danton in April 1794. Imprisoned after Thermidor, following his release joined Babeuf’s Conspiracy of Equals.
Louis XVII (1785–1795), France’s dauphin after his older brother’s
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