Alembert,
Jean Le Rond d' (mathematician)
Argens,Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis de (freethinker) Opinions on vampires
Belsunce
de Castelmoron, Henri François-Xavier de (Bishop of Marseille) In
the Marseille plague 1720
Benoît, Pierre (French adventurer in Argentina) Thought by his descendants to have been Louis XVII
Bion,
Jean (chaplain in the French galley fleet) Account
of the torments which the French Protestants endure aboard the galleys
Bonnet, Charles (Swiss naturalist) Portrait and thoughts on the afterlife
Bourbotte, Pierre (radical deputy, "Martyr of Prairial")
Condemnation and suicideBordelon, abbé Laurent (writer on superstition), Extravagant Imaginings...of M. Oufle (1711)
Brissac,
Louis-Hercule-Timoléon de Cossé, duc de At
Louveciennes with Madame du Barry Victim
of Versailles prison massacre 1792; Versailles
massacre (cont.)
Brissot,
Jean-Paul (Girondin deputy) Meets
Madame du Barry
Burney,
Frances (English diarist) On
the émigrés at Juniper Hall; On
the duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
Calmet, Dom Augustin (Benedictine scholar) Dissertation on vampires; View of vampires compared with that of freethinkers
Cange, Joseph. Virtuous clerk at the Saint-Lazare prison
Carrier,
Jean-Baptiste (Revolutionary) Portraits: Overview; Miniature
at Musée Lambinet; Tussaud
guillotined head Biography: Early
years; Sex
life; Trial
and execution; Historical
reputation
Carton, Marie
Armabade "La Carton" (dancer) On
Freemasonry rituals
Chalier,
Joseph (Lyon Revolutionary) Early
Revolutionary career; Later
career; Botched
execution; Commemorated
by the Revolutionary government
Charton, Angélique-Catherine (diarist) Visits the Madeleine Cemetery in 1793
Châtelet,
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du With
Voltaire at Cirey; Scientific
and philosophical manuscripts; Inventories
of her possessions; And
gambling ; Portraits;
Snuffbox
with portrait; Wax
effigy at the Château de Breteuil
Choiseul,
duc de (Royal minister) Snuffbox
depicting the Hôtel Choiseul in Paris; Snuffbox
with views of the Château de Chanteloup; Pagoda
at Chanteloup; Portrait
by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Cléry, Jean-Baptiste (Louis
XVI's valet)Manuscript
of Journal auctioned
Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas
de Caritat, marquis de (Enlightenment writer & Girondin deputy) Calculates
odds at biribi; Suicide
Collot
d'Herbois, Jean-Marie (Revolutionary) And
the Terror in Lyon
Corday, Charlotte (Assassin of Marat) Portrait by P.-A. Wille; Skull
Danton, Georges Jacques (Revolutionary) Exhumes
his wife; Portraits; Portraits by David.
Daujon, Francois (sculptor and Revolutionary) Saves the Royal family; And dechristianisation
Daujon, Francois (sculptor and Revolutionary) Saves the Royal family; And dechristianisation
Delamarre, Marguerite (nun) Inspires
Diderot's La Religieuse
Desloges,
Pierre (writer) Defends
signing for the deaf
Descloseaux, Pierre-Louis-Olivier, Post-Revolutionary owner of the Madeleine Cemetery
Du Barry,
Madame (mistress of Louis XV) Pavilion
at Louveciennes; And
Fragonard's Progress of Love; Meets
Jean-Paul Brissot; Wax
effigy by Curtius
Duquesnoy, Ernest Dominique
(radical deputy, "Martyr of Prairial") Condemnation and suicide
Duroy, Jean-Michel (radical deputy, "Martyr of Prairial") Condemnation and suicide
Elbée, Maurice Joseph Louis Gigost d' (Vendéen general)
Execution
Elbée, Maurice Joseph Louis Gigost d' (Vendéen general)
Éon, Chevalier d' (Early transgender figure) Portrait
by Thomas Stuart (National Portrait Gallery London) Fencing
contest with the Chevalier de Saint-George
Favras, Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Execution in 1789
Ferry, Nicolas, "Bébé" (dwarf) Life and medical condition; Depictions
Fontenelle, Bernard le Bouvier de (writer ) Attends
a ball chez Helvétius
Fouché,
Joseph (Revolutionary) And
the Terror in Lyon
Fouquier-Tinville, Antoine
Quentin (Revolutionary prosecutor) Wax
head at Madame Tussaud's; In
Christmas story by G. Lenotre
Franklin,
Benjamin, Relations
with Madame Helvétius; Experiments
with electricity; Wax models of Franklin;
Gobel, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph
(Constitutional Bishop of Paris) Life
and career
Goujon, Jean-Marie Claude Alexandre (Radical deputy, "Martyr of Prairial") Friendship with P.-F. Tissot; Condemnation and suicide; Possible survival
Gray, Elizabeth (English
follower of the "French Prophets") Life
Gresset, Jean-Baptiste (poet) Vert-vert (poem)
Guadet, Marguerite-Élie (Girondin deputy) Fugitive in Saint-Émilion; Capture and execution
Hardouin, Jean (Jesuit
writer) Uncovers
atheistical forgeries
Helvétius, Anne-Catherine
de Ligniville, Madame And
Benjamin Franklin; Described
by Abigail Adams; In John
Adams mini-series; In
a story by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly; Cats; Last
years in Auteuil
Helvétius,
Claude-Adrien (Enlightenment writer) Gives
a ball
Hébert, Jacques (Revolutionary) Wax
head at Madame Tussaud's
Hornoy, Alexandre-Marie-François de Paule de Dompierre d' Prison memoirs
Juigné, Antoine-Éléonor-Léon Leclerc de (Archbishop of Paris) During the Revolution
Kingston, James
King, Baron Reveals
secrets of the Freemasons
Lacy, John (English
follower of the "French Prophets") Career
as a prophet; Manuscript
of his utterances in the Chetham Library
Laborde, Jean-Joseph (financier) Estate at La Ferté-Vidame; Garden at Méréville; Account of the garden at Méréville by his son
Lamballe, Marie
Louise of Savoy, princesse de Biography; Imprisonment
and death; Corpse
processed around Paris
La
Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François Alexandre Frédéric,duc de Exile
in Bury-St-Edmunds
La Ville, Marie-Anne de (sorceress) Magical practices
Lavoisier, Antoine (chemist). And the Wall of the Fermiers-Généraux; Member of a royal commission tasked with improving cesspit design
Le Bon, Joseph (Arras Revolutionary) Possible portait by Dominique Doncre
Lessart, Antoine-Claude Nicolas de
Valdec de (Royal minister) And
Freemasonry; Killed
in Versailles prison massacre 1792
Lecouvreur, Adrienne (actress) Relations
with Voltaire; Account of her death;
Portraits: By Louis de Fontaine; By Charles-Antoine Coypel
Portraits: By Louis de Fontaine; By Charles-Antoine Coypel
Lenoir, Jean-Charles-Pierre (lieutenant of police) Anecdote concerning his wig
L'Épée, Abbé
Charles-Michel de (teacher of the deaf) Controversies
over signing for the deaf; And the
"secret child"
Lescombat, Marie-Catherine Taperet (murderess) Trial and execution
Lorimier de Chamilly, Claude-Christophe (Royal valet) Marriage to Thérèse Marsolier; Career as Premier valet de chambre du Roi
Lorimier de Chamilly, Claude-Christophe (Royal valet) Marriage to Thérèse Marsolier; Career as Premier valet de chambre du Roi
Louis
XVII [Louis-Charles de France] Autograph
sold;
Death and burial: Account of the burial by Alcide Beauchesne; According to Philippe Delorme Comments by Franck Ferrand Forensic assessment by Dr Pierre Léon Thillaud Search for the body at the Cimetière Sainte-Marguerite
Pretenders: Documentary by Franck Ferrand Lecture by Philippe Delorme; Various survivalist theories; The baron de Richemont; Karl Wilhelm Naundorff: Claims supported by Charles-Louis de Bourbon; Case against; DNA evidence; Pierre Benoît
Images: Early portraits; Portrait sculptures; Official portrait by Kucharski; By Vigée Lebrun; By Lecreux; Portraits from the Temple.
Maillard, Marie-Thérèse Davoux, Mlle (actress) Personifies Liberty in the Fête de la Raison at Notre-Dame
Maillard, Marie-Thérèse Davoux, Mlle (actress) Personifies Liberty in the Fête de la Raison at Notre-Dame
Marat, Jean-Baptiste (Revolutionary) His medical condition; Illness again; Facial reconstruction; Bathtub; Bathtub
(cont.); Forensic analysis of bathtub; "Triumph
of Marat" by Boilly; Portrait by Gabriel
Depictions
of the death of Marat: By
David; By Guillaume-Joseph
Roques; Tussaud
waxwork; Installation
on Lake Constance 2011
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France:
Sèvres
"bol-sein"; Autograph
letter & other relics from the Temple ;Tapestry
embroidered with Madame Elisabeth; second
sample; Relationship
with Fersen; Use
of coded letters; Trial; Exhumation
Portraits: By
Joseph Boze; By
François Dumont; By
Dumont (miniature with red hair); By Alexander
Kucharski; By
Kucharski (in the Temple prison); By
Kucharski (portrait belonging to Jacques Larcia); By Adolf Ulrik
Wertmüller; ByWertmüller (in hunting costume); Wertmüller miniatures of Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette;
Collections relating to M-A: Château de Cambon; Collection of Michèle Lorin
Marion, Elie (Camisard prophet)And
the prophetic movement in early 18th-century London
Marsollier family (Parisian silk merchants)Portrait
of Madame Marsollier by Nattier
Marteihle, Jean (Protestant
galley slave)Memoirs
Milley,
Claude François (Jesuit mystic) In the
Marseille plague 1720
Moncrif, François-Augustin Paradis de (author) Life
and career Les
Chats (1727); Les
Chats (2nd post)
Monnet, Denis (Lyon
Revolutionary) Life and career
Morice, Jean-Gabriel-Philippe (legal clerk & reluctant Revolutionary official) Memoirs of the Revolution; Memoirs ( cont.)
Naundorff,
Morice, Jean-Gabriel-Philippe (legal clerk & reluctant Revolutionary official) Memoirs of the Revolution; Memoirs ( cont.)
Naundorff,
Papillon, Jean-Marie (wood
engraver and wallpaper manufacturer) Place
in the history of wallpaper
Pâris Duverney, Joseph (financier) Lost
treasure
Pautrizel, Jean-Baptiste Gabriel-Louis Thyrus de (Deputy to the Convention from Guadeloupe) Political career
Pompadour,
Madame de "Après
nous, le Déluge....."
Pautrizel, Jean-Baptiste Gabriel-Louis Thyrus de (Deputy to the Convention from Guadeloupe) Political career
Raynal, abbé
Thomas-Guillaume (Enlightenment writer) Letter
to the National Assembly 1791
Rémuzat, Anne-Madeleine (Mystic & exponent of the Cult
of the Sacred Heart) Process
for beatification
Réveillon, Jean-Baptiste (wallpaper
manufacturer) Career
as an entrepreneur; Wallpaper
designs and manufacture; "Réveillon
Riots" of April 1789
Reza Beg, Mohammed (Persian ambassador) Embassy
of 1715; Portrait byWatteau ; Members
of the Embassy depicted by Watteau
Richemont, baron de (pretender to the French throne) Tomb
Robespierre, Maximilien (Revolutionary) In
Arras; in
Arras (cont.); Remembered
in Arras; Schoolboy oration
to Louis XVI; Manuscripts
pre-empted by French government; His
waistcoat; Lock
of his hair; Table
where he lay on 9th-10th Thermidor; Table subjected to forensic analysis.
Portraits: Checklist of
portraits: first
set, second
set, third
set; Early
portrait ascribed to Boilly; By Boilly (in Lille); By
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard; By
Joseph Boze; Sketch
ascribed to David; Print
by Delpech; By
Gérard; By
Vivant Denon; By Vivant Denon (2nd post)By William Henry Fisk
Sculptures:Bust
by Deseine; Bust by Deseine (2nd post); Bust by Houdon
(misidentified as Robespierre);Modern
model by George Stuart
Death
masks, wax effigies etc. By Madame
Tussaud: History
and creation; Encountered
by Jacques-Louis David; 19th
century illustration.
Fake
death mask ; Other
documented death masks; Cast from
the Musée Grévin. Virtual
facial reconstruction; Death mask reconsidered
Roland de la Platière, Jean-Marie (Revolutionary) Suicide
Romme, Gilbert (mathematician & radical deputy, "Martyr of Prairial") Condemnation and suicide; Possible survival
Roucher, Antoine (poet) Friendship
with Mme Helvétius; In
prison with the artist Hubert Robert; Documents
concerning his execution
Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste (poet) Relations
with Voltaire
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Saint-Albin, Alexandre Rousselin Corbeau de (Revolutionary & collector) Owned Charlotte Corday's skull
Saxe, Maurice, Maréchal
de Death
and burial
Soubrany, Pierre Aimable (
radical deputy, "Martyr of Prairial") Condemnation and suicide;
Staël, Anne
Louise Germaine de (writer) In exile at Juniper Hall, Dorking
Sultzer, Jean-Michel (Revolutionary
and master locksmith) Puts
a bonnet rouge on the spire of Strasbourg Cathedral.
Thyrus de Pautrizel, Jean-Baptiste Gabriel-Louis (deputy for Guadeloupe) Life and career; Portrait by David
Tissot, Pierre-François (Revolutionary and writer) Friendship with Jean-Marie Goujon; And the"Martyrs of Prairial"; Assessment of Robespierre
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques (Enlightenment thinker and Royal Minister) Improves
stagecoach service
Varicourt, François Rouph de (brother of the marquise de Villette) Killed in October Days
Vaucanson, Jacques (inventor) Automata; Involvement
in silk industry; Tries
to rescue Marguerite Delamarre from the Convent at Longchamps; Portrait
by Joseph Boze
Villette, Charles
Michel, marquis de And
Voltaire's heart
Villette, Reine-Philiberte Rouph de Varicourt, marquise de Brother killed
in October Days
Vincent, Jean-Baptiste (member
of the Paris Commune) Preserves
Louis XVI's cravat
Voltaire: Heart; Brain; Teeth. At Cirey: Interiors; Porte
d'honneur; Theatre At
Ferney: Photos
of the château; "Triumph
of Voltaire"(picture); Encourages
watch-making industry
Writings: On vampires; Letter to Earl Bathurst
Portrait sculptures:After
Houdon in papier-mâché (Bibliothèque Jacques-Villon, Rouen);
Head
in papier-mâché (Musée Carnavalet); Seated
statues by Houdon: Bibliothèque
nationale; Comédie
française; Musée
Lambinet. Statuettes
by Houdon
In modern
scholarship: Theodore
Bestermann and the Voltaire Foundation
Villenave, Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse de
Young, Arthur
(English agronomist & writer)
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