Lawyer in 1781 then judge in 1782 in Arras, he participated in the drafting of the notebooks of grievances and was elected deputy of the third estate in 1789. He thus participated in the states general the same year. He became the principal leader of the Jacobin Club in 1791, defending the freedom o
Maximilien de Robespierre (1758-1794) is by far the best known of the French revolutionaries. Head of the Jacobins club, he sat in the Assembly as a Montagnard when he voted for the death of the king and war on the European monarchies. In June 1793, the Committee of Public Safety, of which he was on
Marshal of France in 1791. From 1781, he distinguished himself during the American War of Independence at the head of the French expeditionary force, resulting in the victory of Yorktown. In 1790, he commanded the Army of the North, but was arrested during the Terror.
Vercingetorix (72-46 BCE) was a Gallic aristocrat and chief of the Arverni tribe. At the head of a coalition of Gallic peoples, he stood up to the Roman armies before having to capitulate during the siege of Alesia. Vercingetorix, defeated by Caesar, almost single-handedly embodies a national myth d