Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois. French revolutionary.

Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, French Revolution, Directory, costume,
Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois, French revolutionary.

Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois demolishing buildings of Lyon. French Revolution.

Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois démolissant des bâtiments de Lyon.

Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois (1750-1796), French revolutionary, actor and director of the Lyon Theatre, member of the National Convention. He joined the Jacobin Club and was together with Billaud-Varenne the representative of the unofficial representative of the Parisian sans-culottes at Welfare Committee.

During the storming of the Tuileries Gardens and the September massacres, he played prominent role. He organized mass executions  and destroyed Roman Catholic institutions in Lyon, voted for Louis XVI’s  death, helped with the fall of Robespierre, was sentenced in 1795 for deportation to Guyana, where he died of yellow fever.

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