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Michel Ney
French general (born 1769–1815)
Jacques de Molay
Grand Master of the Knights Templar
Robert-François Damiens
French domestic servant and attempted assassin
François Ravaillac
French regicide
Marguerite Porete
French mystic
Ravachol
François Claudius Ravachol (; born Koenigstein; 14 October 1859 – 11 July 1892), also known as the Christ of Anarchy, was a French illegalist anarchist mainly known for his terrorist activism, impact, the myths that developed around his figure, and his influence on the anarchist movement, French society and art. He is also credited as being one of the main launchers of the Ère des attentats (1892-1894).
Urbain Grandier
French priest
Étienne Dolet
French translator and scholar (1509-1546)
Jean Calas
French protestant martyr (1698–1762)
François de Charette
French soldier, leader of the Royalist army during the War in the Vendée (1763-1796)
Auguste Vaillant
sentenced to death in France
Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires
Spanish army officer (1753-1810) and 10th viceroy of the Spanish Viceroyalty of the River Plat
Maurice d'Elbée
French military leader (1752–1794)
Guillaume Cale
French rebel leader
Georges Darboy
Catholic archbishop (1813-1871)
Jean-François de la Barre
French icon for the victims of intolerance (1745-1766)
Martin Guerre
Impersonated French peasant
Georges Mandel
French Jewish politician, resistance fighter and art collector, murdered in the Holocaust (1885-1944)
Claude François de Malet
French general (1754–1812)
Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry
French engineer and air force officer (1927–1963)
Pierre Basile
French military personnel
Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours
French noble
Jean-Nicolas Stofflet
French military leader
Geoffroi de Charney
French Knight Templar
Eugène Varlin
French socialist (1839-1871)
Jean Zay
French politician, Minister of National Education and Fine Arts (1904–1944)
Charles de la Bédoyère
French General (1786–1815)
Louis Dominique Bourguignon
French outlaw (1693–1721)
Nicasius of Rheims
Bishop of Rheims
Louis Rossel
sentenced to death in France (1844–1871)
Eustace the Monk
mercenary and pirate from France
Théophile Ferré
French politician (1846–1871)
Louis Mandrin
French outlaw
Raoul Rigault
French journalist, politician and writer
Solange
Carolingian saint
Raoul II of Brienne, Count of Eu
Count of Eu
Anne du Bourg
French magistrat (1521-1559)
Joseph Boniface de La Môle
French noble
Jacques Léon Clément-Thomas
French general (1809–1871)
Claude Lecomte
French military officer (1817-1871)
Francisco Salvador-Daniel
composer (1831-1871)
François de Montmorency-Bouteville
French noble
Jean Diot and Bruno Lenoir
last French sentenced to death for homosexuality
Jean Châtel
French attempted assassin
Jacques Chausson
French criminal
Olivier IV de Clisson
Est 1305 - 2 Aug 1343
Jean Vallière
French Augustinian monk
Pierre de La Broce
French royal favorite
Barnabé Brisson
French jurist, politician and humanist (1531-1591)
Louis de Frotté
French soldier
Guillaume Bélibaste
Cathar parfait
Jean Catelas
sentenced to death in France
Louis Bernard Bonjean
French politician (1804-1871)
Marie-Josephte Corriveau
woman from New France who murdered her second husband (1733-1763) and well-known figure in Québécois folklore
Jean-Louis Verger
French criminal (1826–1857)
Pierronne
Pierronne, also known as Pierrone, Pierronne la Bretonne and Perrinaïc (died 3 September 1430), was a Breton woman who said she saw visions of "God dressed in a long white robe with a red tunic underneath". Pierronne, who may have met Joan of Arc in 1429, tried to defend her reputation at Corbeil. For this, Pierronne was arrested by pro-English authorities in March 1430 and burned at the stake.
Victor Lahorie
French general (1766–1812)
Bolo Pasha
French traitor (1867-1918)
Jean de Montaigu
Illegitimate son of French king
Nicolas Béhuchet
French admiral and financier