Louis de Saint-Just

Portrait of Saint-Just by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (nicknamed the Angel of Death) was an important person in the French revolution and the Reign of Terror. He worked closely with Robespierre. He was born August 25, 1767, Decize, France and died on July 28, 1794, Paris to the Guillotine. Saint-Just reputedly accepted his death with coolness and pride.

Louis De Saint-Just Media

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  in 1785 Saint-Just wrote a monograph about Château de Coucy, a mediaeval castle with a donjon

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  Saint-Just's home in Blérancourt is now a museum and tourist center.

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  Entrance to the Committee of Public Safety.

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  Order of the Revolutionary Tribunal condemning the Hébertists

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  Battle of Fleurus (1794) by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse. Oil painting, Château de Versailles.

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  Saint-Just and Robespierre at the Hôtel de Ville on the night of 9 to 10 Thermidor Year II. Painting by Jean-Joseph Weerts

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  Œuvres complètes ("Complete Works"), edited by Charles Vellay. First edition, Paris, 1908

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  Terracotta bust of Saint-Just at the Musée Lambinet in Versailles.

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