List of people associated with the French Revolution
This is a partial list of people involved in the French Revolution. It includes both supporters and opponents of the revolution.For a list of groups and factions, see Glossary of the French Revolution.
Inevitably, many individuals here played multiple roles. For example, the Bonapartist General Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was an active Jacobin and associated, to some degree with both the Girondists and the Montagne. (He was also a prominent author.) As a rule, the best place to clarify these complexities is in the article on the individual in question.
Royalists
In this context, "royalist" refers specifically to supporters of the Bourbon monarchy (not to Bonapartistss).
Bourbon Royalty
Royal Ministers
Other Royalists
Feuillants
See main article Feuillant.
The Gironde
See main article Girondist.
Girondist ministers
Other important Girondists
Also associated with the Gironde
The Montagne (Mountain)
See main article The Mountain
Members of the Committee of Public Safety
See main article Committee of Public Safety
It is possible that some of these should not be listed as Montagnards; research needed.
Other Montagnards
Hebertists
Members of the Committee of Public Safety
See main article Committee of Public Safety
Other members of the Committee for Public Safety
It is possible that some of these should be listed as Montagnards; research needed.
Bonapartists
Napoleon and his retinue
Other Bonapartists
Too fluid to classify
Other political and military figures
Writers
See also List of Historians of the French Revolution.Philosophers who influenced the Revolution
Polemical writers contemporary with the Revolution
Other writers contemporary with the Revolution
This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of writers of the revolutionary period, just of those significantly involved in (or impacted by) the events of the Revolution.
Artists
Others
References
Reference for membership of the Committee of Public Safety
