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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

1767 - 1794

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Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ʒyst]; 25 August 1767 – 9 Thermidor, Year II [28 July 1794]), sometimes nicknamed the Archangel of Terror, was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention, a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the French Revolution. He was a close friend of Maximilien Robespierre and served as his most trusted ally during the period of Jacobin rule (1793–94) in the First French Republic. Saint-Just worked as a legislator and a military commissar, but he achieved a lasting reputation as the face of the Reign of Terror. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Antoine de Saint-Just has received more than 957,458 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Antoine de Saint-Just is the 730th most popular politician (down from 641st in 2019), the 281st most popular biography from France (down from 266th in 2019) and the 70th most popular French Politician.

Saint-Just is most famous for his role in the French Revolution. He was a member of the Committee of Public Safety and advocated for the execution of the king.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just ranks 730 out of 15,577Before him are Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Árpád, John III of Sweden, Charles IX of Sweden, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and Leonid Kuchma. After him are Ptolemy III Euergetes, Anne of Brittany, Umberto I of Italy, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, Jeroboam, and Philip the Arab.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1767, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just ranks 3Before him are Joachim Murat and Wilhelm von Humboldt. After him are Andrew Jackson, Jean-Baptiste Say, John Quincy Adams, John VI of Portugal, Benjamin Constant, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg, and Nicolas Oudinot. Among people deceased in 1794, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just ranks 4Before him are Antoine Lavoisier, Maximilien Robespierre, and Georges Danton. After him are Cesare Beccaria, Marquis de Condorcet, Camille Desmoulins, Edward Gibbon, Jacques Hébert, Élisabeth of France, Alexandre de Beauharnais, and Georges Couthon.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just ranks 281 out of 6,011Before him are Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (1640), Gabriel Fauré (1845), Henry I of France (1008), Simone Weil (1909), Germaine de Staël (1766), and Pope Urban IV (1185). After him are Anne of Brittany (1477), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Claude Lorrain (1600), Henri Moissan (1852), Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), and Eugène de Beauharnais (1781).

Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just ranks 70Before him are Charles I of Anjou (1226), Charles the Simple (879), Philip I of France (1052), John the Fearless (1371), Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (1640), and Henry I of France (1008). After him are Anne of Brittany (1477), Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), Letizia Ramolino (1750), Robert II of France (972), John I of France (1316), and Louis VI of France (1081).