Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois | |
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| 20th President of the National Convention | |
| In office 19 July 1794 – 3 August 1794 | |
| Preceded by | Jean-Antoine Louis |
| Succeeded by | Philippe-Antoine Merlin |
| In office 13 June 1793 – 27 June 1793 | |
| Preceded by | François René Mallarmé |
| Succeeded by | Jacques-Alexis Thuriot |
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| Born | 19 June 1749 Paris, France |
| Died | 8 June 1796 (aged 46) Cayenne, French Guiana |
| Cause of death | Yellow fever |
| Citizenship | French |
| Political party | the Mountain |
| Parent(s) | Gabriel-Jacques Collot, Jeanne-Agnès Collot née Hannen |
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| Known for | member of the Committee of Public Safety, execution of more than 2,000 people in Lyon |
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Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ maʁi kɔlo dɛʁbwa]; 19 June 1749 – 8 June 1796) was a French actor, dramatist, essayist, and revolutionary. He was a member of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror and, while he saved Madame Tussaud from the Guillotine,[1] he administered the execution of more than 2,000 people in the city of Lyon.
- ^ Undine Concannon, 'Tussaud , Anna Maria (bap. 1761, d. 1850)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004