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Georges Couthon
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French politician and lawyer (1755–1794)
Key facts
- Preceded by
- Jean-Henri Voulland
- Succeeded by
- Jacques Louis David
- Constituency
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Born
- ( 1755-12-22 ) 22 December 1755, Orcet , Kingdom of France
- Died
- 28 July 1794 (1794-07-28) (aged 38), Place de la Révolution , Paris , France
- Party
- The Mountain
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Georges
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Orcet
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- judge
- Political party
- Jacobins
- Languages spoken
- French
- Participant in
- French Revolution
- Image
- François Bonneville - Portrait présumé de Georges Couthon (1755-1794), conventionnel - P16 - Musée Carnavalet.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
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- Commons category
- Georges Couthon
- date of birth
- 1755-12-22
- date of death
- 1794-07-28
- cause of death
- decapitation
- place of burial
- Errancis Cemetery
- medical condition
- hemiplegia
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Encyclopedic overview
Georges Auguste Couthon ( French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ oɡyst kutɔ̃], 22 December 1755 – 28 July 1794) was a French politician and lawyer known for his service as a deputy in the Legislative Assembly during the French Revolution. Couthon was elected to the Committee of Public Safety on 30 May 1793. Along with his close associate Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and Maximilien Robespierre, he formed an unofficial triumvirate within the committee which wielded power during the Reign of Terror until the three were arrested and executed in 1794 during the Thermidorian Reaction. A Freemason, Couthon played an important role in the development of the Law of 22 Prairial, which was responsible for a sharp increase in the number of executions of accused counter-revolutionaries.
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