Historical Figures

Babeuf François Noël, known as Gracchus (1760 - 1797)

Commissioner in 1787, he participated in the writing of the notebooks of grievances. He founded the newspaper “Le Tribun du peuple”. In 1796, he conspired to overthrow the Directory:“the conspiracy of equals”. Dismantled, Babeuf is sentenced to death. Founder of Babouvism, Marxist movements consider him the founder of the first communist party.