Historical Figures

Duport or Du Port Adrien (1759 - 1798)

Brilliant lawyer and invested Freemason, he was deputy of the nobility in the States General of 1789, he rallied in the Third Estate and formed, with Barnave and Lameth, a triumvirate. The three of them formed the Feuillants club, whose hegemony they disputed with La Fayette. He approaches the king, but he flees to Switzerland the day after August 10. He will die anonymously of tuberculosis.