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| Pierre Choderlos de Laclos |
Bonapartist general; author of Les Liaisons dangereuses. |
| Marie Thérèse, princesse de Lamballe |
Friend of Marie Antoinette; victim of the September Massacres. |
| Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette |
General; constitutional monarchist. |
| Claire Lacombe |
Feminist revolutionary, founder of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women. |
| Alexandre-Théodore, comte de Lameth |
Leading Feuillant; formed "Triumvirate" with Barnave and Duport; eventually emigrated. |
| Charles Malo François Lameth |
Brother of Alexandre de Lameth; Feuillant; emigrated. |
| Jean Lannes |
Soldier rising through ranks to become general; Marshal of France; close to Bonaparte. |
| Arnaud de Laporte |
High royal government official, headed up antirevolutionary activities; second political victim of the guillotine. |
| Marquis de Launay |
Royalist governor of the Bastille; killed after its storming. |
| Antoine Lavoisier |
Scientist; metric pioneer; tax collector; guillotined. |
| Charles Leclerc |
General; close to Bonaparte; served in Haiti. |
| Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas |
Deputy to the National Convention from Pas-de-Calais; Robespierrist and close ally of Saint-Just. |
| Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau |
Former noble; voted to execute Louis XVI; assassinated one day before the execution of Louis XVI. |
| Jacques-Donatien Le Ray |
Promoted French support for the American Revolution. |
| Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet |
Committee of Public Safety member; opposed Girondist faction. |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture |
Commander of Haitian rebels fighting against French occupying forces; captured and imprisoned by Napoleon's government. |
| Louis XVI of France |
French king at outbreak of Revolution; deposed; guillotined. |
| Louis XVII of France |
The "Lost Dauphin" |
| Nicolas, Comte Luckner |
German-born Marshal of France; commanded troops for the First Republic; guillotined during the Reign of Terror. |
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