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    Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (French pronunciation: [ʒak nikɔla bijo vaʁɛn]; 23 April 1756 – 3 June 1819), also known as Jean Nicolas or by his nicknames...
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  • Brigitte Billaud-Varenne, also known as Virginie Billaud-Varenne, (?-after 1874) was a Black Guadeloupean slave freed by Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, who...
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    overwhelming support despite some initial opposition. Both Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, who opposed the printing of...
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    Jacobin regime: Bertrand Barère, Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois and Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, who were all threatened with transportation...
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    denounce the tyranny of Robespierre. The attack was taken up by Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne. Cries went up of "Down with the tyrant! Arrest him!" Robespierre...
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    attack on the defeated party. Along with his close friend Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, he sat at the extreme left of the Convention, attacking speculators...
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    spoke of drinking hemlock, and Jacques-Louis David cried out: "I will drink it with you." Collot d'Herbois and Billaud-Varenne were driven out because of...
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    Basire Francois Chabot Joseph Fouché Jean-Lambert Tallien Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne Bertrand Barère Anti-clericalism Left-wing populism Liberalism...
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    conflict with anti-religious Committee members Collot d'Herbois and Billaud-Varenne. Moreover, Robespierre's increasingly extensive absences from the Committee...
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  • death. The law settled the competence of the two committees. Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne proposed the law as a means to rigorously centralize power...
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  • recommended it as a reference. François-Noël Babeuf Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne Louis Blanc Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Étienne Cabet Étienne Bonnot de Condillac...
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    colleagues in the Reign of Terror, Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois and Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne. The Court hearings continued until being interrupted by the...
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    Reaction of July 1794, and defended Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, and Collot d'Herbois from the accusations made against them...
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    sections and the popular societies, a suggestion greatly applauded by Billaud-Varenne and others, ignoring Maximilien Robespierre's warning against a riot...
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    municipality, co-founded the Jacobin Club in that city, and on the flight to Varennes of King Louis XVI in 1791, he drew up a petition to invite the National...
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    Tribune that the journée of 31 May was not enough. At the Jacobins club, Billaud-Varenne echoed the sentiment, supposedly saying, "Our country is not saved;...
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    Jean-François Rewbell; Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras; Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux; Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot; and Étienne-François...
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    Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, author of Beauty and the Beast Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, politician and revolutionary Aimé Bonpland, botanist William-Adolphe...
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  • General; effectively Napoleon Bonaparte's chief of staff. Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne Committee of Public Safety member; survived 9 Thermidor; later...
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    After 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) he took on the defence of Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne and Bertrand Barère and opposed the trial of former members...
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  • Saint-Just François Bureloup as Georges Couthon Nicolas Lumbreras as Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne Cyril Lecomte as Joseph Fouché Alexandre von Sivers...
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    violent sequel to the demonstration of 20 June 1792. Jacobin Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne outlined a program for the next insurrection: exile the King...
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    de Saint-Just Bertrand Barère Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne Pierre Gaspard Chaumette Arthur Dillon Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville...
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    disbanded. Some of the lay teachers in their schools, such as Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, became greatly involved with the Revolution. Of the 288 members...
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  • Montagnards and called for the arrest of Bertrand Barère, Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois. Returning to the army of the...
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    October 2022. "Jacques Chirac (1932)". Official website of the French Presidency. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2022. "Nicolas Sarkozy (1955)"...
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    University Press. pp. 734–736. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Billaud-Varenne, Jacques Nicolas" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University...
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  • 29 May - Jean Jacques Étienne Lucas, Navy officer and hero of the Battle of Trafalgar (born 1764) 3 June - Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, Revolutionary...
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    28 July 1794. Member of CoPS (27 Jul 1793 – 27 Jul 1794). Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne 5 September 1793 19 September 1793 Member of CoPS (6 Sep 1793...
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    it formed a Committee on Surveillance which included Marat, Jacque-Nicolas Billaud-Varennes, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Georges Danton, Jean-Lambert...
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