List of People Associated With The French Revolution - P

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Thomas Paine American revolutionary writer; moved to France during French Revolution but subsequently fell out of favor; arrested, imprisoned and sentenced to death during Reign of Terror, but survived. Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve Insurrectionary mayor of Paris; member of first Committee of Public Safety; associated with Girondists; committed suicide during Reign of Terror. Pierre Philippeaux Montagnard; Danton associate; guillotined. Philippe Egalité See Orléans, Louis Philippe II, duc d' above. Charles Pichegru General; member of the Council of Five Hundred; conspirator in the Coup of 18 Fructidor. Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois
Engineer; Committee of Public Safety member; Carnot associate; turned against Robespierre on 9 Thermidor; Council of Five Hundred member during Directory. Pierre Louis Prieur
National Constituent Assembly secretary; Committee of Public Safety member; exiled following Bourbon Restoration. Louis, comte de Provence Louis XVI's younger brother; emigrated 1791; declared himself Louis XVIII, King of France in 1795, but did not actually assume the throne until 1814.