Historical Figures

Collot dHerbois Jean-Marie (1750 - 1796)

Actor then director of the Lyon theater, he became secretary of the Jacobins club. Member of the commune of Paris he is one of the actors of the day of August 10, 1792 and approves the massacres of September. Conventional, member of the Committee of Public Safety, he was responsible, with Billaud-Varenne, for internal policy. One of the main organizers of the Terror, he crushed the royalist insurrection of Lyon (1793), but turned against Robespierre during 9-Thermidor. He was deported to Cayenne in 1795.


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