French radicals

French revolutionary lawyer and politician (1758–1794)

politician and journalist during the French Revolution (1743-1793)

Philosopher, military and political leader (1767-1794)

French politician (1838-1882)

French journalist and politician

French philosopher (1868–1951)

The '''''' (; ) were the common people of the lower classes in late 18th-century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life under the . The word , which is opposed to "aristocrat", seems to have been used for the first time on 28 February 1791 by Jean-Bernard Gauthier de Murnan in a derogatory sense, speaking about a " army". The word came into vogue during the demonstration of 20 June 1792.

French priest and revolutionary (1752-1794)