Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (Known as "The Archangel of the Terror")

Jacobin Leader, Committee of Public Safety, Political Theorist, Guillotined at Thermidor

Born Aug 25, 1767

Decize (Nièvre), France

Passed Away Jul 28, 1794 Paris (Place de la Révolution), French Republic

Lifespan 26 years old

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"Ceux qui font des révolutions à demi ne font que se creuser un tombeau (Those who make revolutions by halves do but dig their own grave)."

Archival Overview

Fierce, unyielding young Jacobin orator known as the 'Archangel of the Terror' who was Robespierre's closest lieutenant on the Committee of Public Safety, organizing the victorious armies of the Republic and drafting republican institutions.

Biographical Record

Elected to the National Convention at age twenty-five in 1792, Saint-Just leaped into national prominence with a chilling speech demanding Louis XVI's execution: 'One cannot reign innocently; every king is a rebel and a usurper.' As mission commissioner to the Rhine armies, his ruthless energy galvanized French forces to victory at Fleurus.

Saint-Just drafted the Ventôse Decrees confiscating property of counter-revolutionaries to distribute to the poor. On 9 Thermidor, shouting down opposition until silenced, he maintained glacial, stoic silence before being guillotined alongside Robespierre at age twenty-six.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial

Errancis Cemetery
Paris, France

                         GPS: 48.8339, 2.3325                    

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