List of people executed during the French Revolution
The following list of people executed during the French Revolution is a selection of well-known or important personalities who were executed during the Revolution (1789 to 1799). Overall, however, well over 20,000 people were probably executed (see also the reign of terror for the years 1793 and 1794).
1790
- February 19 - Thomas de Mahy de Favras (* 1744), Lieutenant of the Swiss Guard
- September as ringleaders of the - - André Soret, soldier mutiny in Nancy whacked
1792
- April 25th - Nicolas Jacques Pelletier (* 17 ??), French mugger, for whose execution a guillotine was used for the first time
- September 3 - Karl Josef Anton Leodegar von Bachmann (* 1734), commander of the Swiss Guard regiment
- September 25th - Jacques Cazotte (* 1719), French author
1793
1st quarter
- January 21 - Louis XVI. (* 1754), King of France
3rd quarter
- July 17th - Charlotte Corday (* 1768), because of her successful assassination attempt on Jean-Paul Marat
- August 28 - Adam-Philippe de Custine (* 1740), French general
4th quarter
- October 16 - Marie Antoinette (* 1755), Queen of France
- October 31 - Jacques Pierre Brissot , known as de Warville (* 1754), French Girondist leader
- October 31 - Armand Gensonné (* 1758), French Girondist (as one of 22 Girondists arrested in the National Convention)
- October 31 - Jean Duprat (* 1760), Girondist, politician, MP
- October 31 - Pierre Vergniaud (* 1753), orator of the Girondists
- October 31 - Charles-Alexis Brûlart de Sillery (* 1737), Comte de Genlis; French general and deputy
- October 31 - Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède (* 1766), French politician
- October 31 - Claude Fauchet (* 1744), French bishop and member of parliament
- November 3rd - Olympe de Gouges (* 1748), French revolutionary and women's rights activist
- November 4th - Adam Lux (* 1765), German Jacobin and member of the Republic of Mainz
- November 6th - Louis-Philippe-Joseph, duc d'Orléans (* 1747), called Philippe Égalité
- November 8th - Jeanne-Marie Roland de la Platière (* 1754), Madame Rolland, French revolutionary and writer
- November 12th - Jean-Sylvain Bailly (* 1736), French astronomer and first mayor of Paris
- November 15 - Gaspard Jean-Baptiste de Brunet (born June 14, 1734), Général de division
- November 17th - Jean-Nicolas Houchard (* 1738), French general
- November 29th - Antoine Barnave (* 1761), French politician, revolutionary and counter-revolutionary
- December 4th - Armand de Kersaint (* 1742), French naval officer and politician
- December 5th - Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne (* 1743), French politician
- December 8th - Marie-Jeanne Dubarry (* 1743), mistress of Louis XV.
- December 13th - Louis Marie Florent du Châtelet (* 1727), diplomat from the House of Châtelet
- December 21st - Jean-Antoine Grangeneuve (* 1751), French lawyer and politician
- December 31 - Armand-Louis de Gontaut, duc de Biron (* 1747), French general
1794
1st quarter
- January 3 - Renaud-Philippe de Custine (* 1768), son of General Adam-Philippe de Custine
- January 4th - Nikolaus von Luckner (* 1722), German-French. general
- January 11th - Antoine-Adrien Lamourette (* 1742), theologian of the Enlightenment, constitutional bishop of Lyon
- January 21 - 14 martyrs of Laval (* 1717 to 1748), blessed French priests, including François Migoret-Lamberdière (* 1727)
- March 24th - Jacques-René Hébert (* 1757), French revolutionary and publicist
- March 24th - François-Nicolas Vincent (* 1767), French revolutionary, General Secretary in the Ministry of War
- March 24th - Johann Baptista von Cloots, called Anacharsis Cloots (* 1755), German baron, French. MP
- March 24th - Antoine-François Momoro (* 1756), printer and French revolutionary
- March 24 - Charles Philippe Ronsin (* 1751), actor, author, politician and general
- March 25th - Augustin-Joseph de Mailly (* 1708), Marshal of France
2nd quarter
- April 1 - Eulogius Schneider (* 1756), theologian and politician, procurator at the Strasbourg Revolutionary Tribunal
- April 5 - Georges Danton (* 1759), French minister and revolutionary leader
- April 5 - Camille Desmoulins (* 1760), French revolutionary leader
- April 5 - Jean-François Delacroix (* 1753), colleague of Danton
- April 5th - Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles (* 1759), lawyer and politician, President of the Legislative Assembly, member of the Committee on Welfare
- April 5 - Fabre d'Églantine (* 1750), French playwright and revolutionary
- April 5th - François Chabot (* 1756), French priest and politician
- April 5 - Junius Frey (* 1753), Bohemian Jacobin
- April 5 - Emmanuel Frey (* 17 ??), brother of Junius Frey
- April 5 - Pierre Philippeaux (* 1754), French lawyer
- April 5 - François-Joseph Westermann (* 1751), Général de brigade
- April 5 - Claude Basire (* 1764), French politician
- April 5 - Joseph Delaunay (* 1752), French politician
- April 5 - Abbé d'Espagnac (* 1752), French banker
- April 13 - Lucile Duplessis (* 1770), wife of Camille Desmoulins
- April 13th - Jean Baptiste Joseph Gobel (* 1727), former Archbishop of Paris, later priest in the "Temple of Reason"
- April 13 - Arthur Dillon (* 1750), French general
- April 13 - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette
- April 18 - Jean-Joseph de Laborde (* 1724), French entrepreneur and banker
- April 22nd - Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier (* 1754), French initiator of the Le Chapelier law
- April 22nd - Jacques Guillaume Thouret (* 1746), French lawyer and Girondist
- April 23 - Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (* 1721), French statesman and minister of Louis XV.
- April 28 - Charles Henri d'Estaing (* 1729), admiral in the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence
- May 8th - Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (* 1743), French scientist, and the other general tax tenants
- May 10th - Madame Elisabeth (* 1764), sister of the king
- May 27th - Mathieu Jouve Jourdan (* 1746), French revolutionary
- June 17 - Cécile Renault (* 1774), French alleged assassin on Maximilien Robespierre
- June 19 - Marguerite Élie Guadet (* 1758), French revolutionary leader of the Girondins
- June 25th - Antoine Allut (* 1743), French glass manufacturer, lawyer and politician
- June 25th - Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux (* 1767), French founder of a resistance group against the Mountain Party
- June 27th - Claude-Victor de Broglie (* 1756), French politician and general
- June 27th - Philippe de Noailles, Duc de Mouchy (* 1715), French general
- June 27th - Anne-Claude-Louise d'Arpajon, Duchesse de Mouchy (* 1729), first lady of honor of the Queen, called Madame Etiquette , wife of the previous one
- June 27th - Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet (* 1736), French writer
- June 30th - Rozalia Lubomirska (* 1768), Polish nobleman from the Chodkiewicz family
3rd quarter
- July 6th - 26th - Martyrs of Orange , 32 French nuns
- July 7th - Richard Mique (* 1728), French architect of the Queen
- July 7th - Aimar-Charles-Marie de Nicolaï (* 1747), French official of the royal administration
- July 14th - Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (* 1749), head of the Strasbourg Jacobins
- July 17th - Martyrs of Compiègne (* 1715 to 1766), sixteen blessed French Carmelites, including Charlotte Thouret (* 1715)
- July 22 - Cathérine-Françoise-Charlotte de Cossé-Brissac , Duchesse de Noailles (* 1724), widow of Marshal de Noailles
- July 22nd - Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguessau (* 17 ??), daughter-in-law of the previous one
- July 22nd - Louise, Viscountess de Noailles (* 1758), daughter of the previous one
- July 23 - Alexandre de Beauharnais (* 1760), French general, husband of the Joséphine
- July 23rd - Friedrich III. zu Salm-Kyrburg (* 1745), imperial prince , brother of Amalie Zephyrine zu Salm-Kyrburg
- July 25th - André Chénier (* 1762), French poet, opera by Umberto Giordano , 1896
- July 25th - Friedrich von der Trenck (* 1727), former Prussian officer
- July 26 - Charles-François de Saint-Simon Sandricourt (* 1727), Bishop of Agde
After Robespierre's fall :
- July 28th - Antoine de Saint-Just (* 1767), member of the Welfare Committee
- July 28 - Georges Couthon (* 1755), member of the Welfare Committee
- July 28th - Maximilien de Robespierre (* 1758), member of the Welfare Committee
- July 28th - Augustin de Robespierre (* 1763), Member of the National Convention , brother of the previous one
- July 28th - François Hanriot (* 1759), French revolutionary, leader of hordes in the prisons during the September murders and commander of the National Guard
- July 28th - Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot (* 1761), Mayor of Paris
4th quarter
- December 16 - Jean-Baptiste Carrier (* 1756), French revolutionary, member of the National Convention; known for his mass drinkings of prisoners in Nantes
1795
- May 7th - Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (* 1746), French revolutionary and public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal
- May 7th - Pierre-Nicolas-Louis Leroy (* 1743), French revolutionary and juror of the Revolutionary Tribunal
- May 7 - Martial Herman , Judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal
- October 16 - Joseph Le Bon (* 1765), French revolutionary and chairman of the Cambrai Revolutionary Tribunal
1796
- February 29 - François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie (* 1763), French naval officer
1797
- May 27th - François Noël Babeuf (* 1760), French journalist and founder of the secret society of the Conspiracy of Equals
- May 27th - Augustin Alexandre Darthé (* 1769), French revolutionary and participant in the secret society of the Conspiracy of Equals
See also
- Timeline for the French Revolution
- List of executions
- Cimetière de Picpus , Cimetière des Errancis , Cimetière de la Madeleine , where the Paris victims were buried