List of People Associated With The French Revolution - C

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Charles Alexandre de Calonne French Controller-General of Finances from 1783 to 1787, whose discovery of the perilous state of French finances in 1786 precipitated the crisis leading to the Revolution. Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès Moderate; Second Consul under Bonaparte; chief contributor to the Napoleonic Code. Pierre Joseph Cambon Legislative and the Convention member; directed French financial policy and aided in the Thermidor coup. Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot Mathematician; physicist; Committee of Public Safety member; "Organizer of Victory"; turned against Robespierre on 9 Thermidor; a Director; ousted in 18 Fructidor coup. Louis Philippe, duc de Chartres Eldest son of the Duke of Orleans; defected to Austria with Dumouriez in 1793; later King of France. Pierre Gaspard Chaumette Cult of Reason devotee; guillotined alongside fellow devotee Jacques Hébert. André Chénier Poet; guillotined. Jean Chouan Royalist counter-revolutionary. Étienne Clavière Girondist; finance minister 1792; died in prison 1793. Anacharsis Cloots Philosopher and writer; guillotined. Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois Actor; Paris Commune member; belated Montagnard; Committee of Public Safety member; deported to French Guiana after 9 Thermidor revolt, where he died. Marquis de Condorcet Philosopher; mathematician; Girondist associate; died in prison. Charlotte Corday Assassinated Marat; guillotined. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Scientist; metric system pioneer. Georges Couthon Montagnard; Committee of Public Safety member; guillotined following 9 Thermidor.