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• David, Jacques-Louis
  '''David, Jacques-Louis''' (1748-1825): French Painter. Jacques-Louis David was an artistic and political revolutionary who founded the Neo-Classical s
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  '''[[David, Jacques-Louis]]'''
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• Desmoulins, Camille
  On the 12th of July 1789, after the dismissal of [[Necker, Jacques]], Desmoulins gathered a crowd which would lead to the storming of the Bast ...against the Girondins, the more moderate revolutionaries led by [[Brissot, Jacques Pierre]] and [[Vergniaud, Pierre]]. Later, when most Girondins were sent t
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• David, Jacques-Louis
  '''David, Jacques-Louis''' (1748-1825): French Painter. Jacques-Louis David was an artistic and political revolutionary who founded the Neo-Classical s
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• Helvétius, Claude Adrien
  ...me, such as [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de]], [[Diderot, Denis]] and [[Fontenelle, Bernard le Bo ...raries such as [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]] and [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]] were unfavorable mainly because they remained midway between an arbitrary
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• Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
  Among his most famous decorative paintings are those commissioned by King Louis XV's last official mistress, Mme du Barry. The series of four large panels ...e French Revolution, and in fact, under the protection of [[David, Jacques-Louis]], was assigned the duty of overseeing the creation of the Louvre Palace as
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• Brissot, Jacques Pierre
  '''Brissot, Jacques Pierre''' (1754-1793): French Journalist and Revolutionary. Jacques Pierre Brissot was born in Chartres, a small town sixty miles southwest of
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• Corday, Charlotte
  ...While at the abbey, she developed a friendship with the abbess’s nephew, Louis Gustave Doulcet de Pontécoulant, a young lawyer, who would later become Co ...Gironde caused conflicts with her father who was still loyal to the king, Louis XVI. She renewed her friendship with Doulcet de Pontécoulant who provided
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• Hebert, Jacques
  '''Hébert, Jacques René''' (1757-1794): French Revolutionary and Journalist ...woman, Marguerite Beunaiche de La Houdrie, with whom he had four children, Jacques René being the second one. At age 11, young Hébert lost his father, and h
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• Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de
  '''Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine de''' (1767-1794): French Revolutionary. Louis Antoine de Saint-Just was born in Decize in the Nivernais region. In spite
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• Fabre d'Eglantine
  ...posed three poems in honor of the famed French scientist, [[Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de]]. In 1778, he married Marie-Nicole Godin, granddaughter ...lutionaries opposed to the Girondins, more moderate ones led by [[Brissot, Jacques Pierre]], [[Louvet]] and [[Vergniaud, Pierre]]) and a Dantonist, his plays
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• Danton, Georges
  '''Danton, Georges Jacques''' (1759-1794): French Revolutionary. .... In January 1791, he is elected to the Council of the Department. After Louis XVI’s failed attempt to leave France with his family, Danton opposes any
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• La Tour, Maurice-Quentin de
  ...d painters repeatedly meet with refusal until he makes the acquaintance of Jacques-Jean Spoëde, a Flemish artist who introduces him to the works of Rubens an ...several portraits. He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of
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• Clairaut, Alexis-Claude
  ...members of the French Academy, notably Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan and Jacques Cassini. Cassini, in particular, argued that the earth was slightly elonga David Alan Grier, ''When Computers Were Human'', 2005.
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• Blackstone, William
  ...ew came from [[Burlamaqui, Jean-Jacques]], Grotius, [[Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de]], and Pufendorf). His constitutional theory drew up David A. Lockmiller, ''Sir William Blackstone'', 1938.
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• Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de
  '''Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de''' (1689-1755): French, Political and Social Theoris ...ions, including [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Burke, Edmund]], and [[Hume, David]] borrowed ideas from his corpus. In the 18th century, later generations of
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