A child beaten by his priest tutor, he is now a hunchback and retains a hatred for Catholicism. Elected to the Estates General. Conventional Girondin, he defends individual freedoms. After the fall of the Girondins, he lived in hiding and returned after the fall of Robespierre. He became the first elected member of the Directory, he took part in the coup d'etat of 18 Fructidor Year V against the royalists and then the Floréal law against the Jacobins. He left the government in June 1799 after having tried to eliminate Catholicism by favoring the emergence of Theophilanthropy (of deist inspiration). He stood aside under Napoleon.
Born in 1081, this son of a serf would rise to the pinnacle of power in Church and State . He will be a monk of the abbey of Saint-Denis of which he will become the abbot in 1122. Having become adviser to the kings Louis VI and Louis VII, Suger will carry out an important legislative work. He organi