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	Information About Georges Couthon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In September 1792 Couthon was elected to the National Convention, and at the trial of the king voted for the death sentence without appeal.
		Couthon returned to Paris, and on December 21 was elected president of the Convention.
		He contributed to the prosecution of the Hébertists, and was responsible for the law of 22 Prairial, which in the case of trials before the Revolutionary Tribunal deprived the accused of the aid of counsel or of witnesses for their defence, on the pretext of shortening the proceedings.
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	GEORGES COUTHON - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGES COUTHON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In September 1792 Couthon was elected member of the National Convention, and at the trial of the king voted for the sentence of death without appeal.
		Couthon returned to Paris, and on the 21st of December was elected president of the Convention.
		He contributed to the prosecution of the Hbertists, and was responsible for the law of the 22nd Prairial, which in the case of trials before the Revolutionary Tribunal deprived the accused of the aid of counsel or of witnesses or their defence, on the pretext of shortening the proceedings.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COUTHON_GEORGES.htm (938 words)

	GEORGES COUTHON (1755-... - Online Information article about GEORGES COUTHON (1755-...
		Couthon, who was now a member of the See also:
		In September 1792 Couthon was elected member of the See also:
		DECREE (from the past participle, decretus, of Lat.
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	Georges Couthon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Georges August Couthon (1755 - July 28, 1794) was a (additional info and facts about French revolutionary) French revolutionary.
		In September 1792 Couthon was elected to the (additional info and facts about National Convention) National Convention, and at the trial of the king voted for the death sentence without appeal.
		He hesitated for a time as to which party he should join, but finally decided for that of (French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'etat (1758-1794)) Robespierre, with whom he shared many opinions, especially in matters of religion.
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	Information About List of people associated with the French Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Went directly from civilian life to being a general; later marshal of France.
		Georges Couthon - Montagnard (faction), on Committee of Public Safety, guillotined after 9 Thermidor
		Georges Danton - writer, Jacobin but neither a Girondist nor a Montagnard (factions), on Committee of Public Safety, guillotined 3 months before Robespierre
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	AllRefer.com - Georges Couthon (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Georges Couthon[zhOrzh kOOtON´] Pronunciation Key, 1755?–1794, French revolutionary.
		As commissioner there he proved most humane, in contrast with his successor Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois.
		Couthon fell with Robespierre in the coup of 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794) and was guillotined.
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	Trial of Danton (from Georges Danton) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		French chemist and physicist Georges Claude was born in Paris.
		Claude also made ammonia out of atmosphere, invented neon light, and devised the method of utilizing for power difference in temperature between the waters at the depths and the surface of tropical seas.
		The violinist and composer Georges Enesco is considered one of Romania's greatest musicians.
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	Maximilien de Robespierre et Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just
		In a haste, he, Couthon, Saint-Just, Augustin (Robespierre's younger brother), and Philippe Lebas (a friend of Saint-Just's) were arrested and convicted without trial.
		Couthon crawled from his wheelchair to hide beneath a table, but was hurled down a flight of stairs by the enraged guards when they arrived.
		Couthon was brought, with the half-dead Augustin, and all four men were gathered for the last time to be taken to the guillotine.
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	Georges Couthon -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		A political ally and confidant of Charles de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou served as De Gaulle's premier for six years before succeeding him as president of France.
		French neo-impressionist painter Georges Seurat is the ultimate example of the artist as scientist.
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	Saturn
		Georges Danton was found guilty and sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal on 13 Germinal 1794.
		Robespierre and Couthon were sentenced to death 10 Thermidor 1794 without a word in their own defense (if they even could defend themselves at that point).
		At the eve of his own execution in 1794 Desmoulins noted that "Of the 52 guests at my wedding all but two are lost to me through exile or death....those two are Robespierre and Danton." Soon those two were killed, along with the bride and the groom.
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	Historical figures in film Danton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Camille Desmoulins--Danton's closest associate, a member of revolutionary Cordellier club, a talented rabble rouser and journalist political career was made by being a revolutionary.
		Saint-Just--the "Angel of Death." The youngest member of the committee and Robespierre's closest associate, Saint-Just was idealistic, militant and uncompromising, a model revolutionary terrorist.
		His actions were so extreme that the Committee was forced to recall him and send the more moderate Couthon in his place.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~jemjones/castofcharactersdanton.html (413 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Georges Couthon
		Couthon, Georges (1755-1794), member of the Committee of Public Safety of France during the Reign of Terror (French Revolution: Reign of Terror)....
		Committee of Public Safety, execution of Georges Couthon
		Gershwin, George (1898-1937), American composer, whose musicals and popular songs are among the finest in those genres and whose compositions in...
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		Georges Couthon was the poor people’s advocate during the Reign of Terror in revolutionary France in the 18th century:
		In 1791 Couthon went to Paris as a deputy to the Revolution's Legislative Assembly and in 1792 was elected to the National Convention, where he joined the majority in voting for the death of King Louis XVI (January 1793).
		Couthon then secured passage of the Law of 22 Prairial (June 10, 1794), which speeded up the work of the Revolutionary Tribunal and unleashed the Reign of Terror.
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	Georges Danton -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		It became a political force under the leadership of such men as Jean-Paul Marat and Georges Danton.
		The German dramatist Georg Büchner exercised a marked influence on the naturalistic drama that came into vogue in the 1890s and, later, on the expressionism that voiced the disillusionment of many artists and intellectuals after World War I. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding figures in German dramatic literature.
		The wife of a French politician during the French Revolution, Madame Roland greatly influenced the policies of the moderate Girondist faction of the revolutionaries.
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	\| Conspiracy Obsession in a Time of Revolution: French Elites and the Origins of the Terror, 1789–1792 \| The ...
		In a world where the undisclosed actions of royal, seigneurial, and ecclesiastical authorities so dominated the lives of the common people, such fears were not necessarily irrational.
		Two of the deputies (the Constituent deputy Gaultier and the Legislative deputy Couthon) were major players in their assemblies, while most of the others were minor players or back-benchers.
		Georges Lefebvre cites a report in early June of fears among the popular classes of a conspiracy of the clergy and the nobility.
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	9 Thermidor
		Afterwards, history was rewritten by these victors, many of whom were just as involved as the men they had executed in the bloodbath of Year II.
		Robespierrists: Maximilien Robespierre, 36, member of Committee of Public Safety, Antoine Saint-Just, 26, member of Committee of Public Safety, Georges Couthon, 38, member of Committee of Public Safety, Philippe Lebas, 29, member of Committee of General Security, Augustin Robespierre, 32, member of Committee of General Security, Francois Hanriot, 36, Commander of National Guard
		Couthon, who had tried to get down the stairs on the back of an officer, had been dropped.
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	couthon - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		COUTHON : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
		Phrases that include couthon: couthon georges, georges couthon
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		Son corps fut retiré à la demande du terrible Couthon du Comité de Salut Public qui le soupçonnait de trahison.
		Auguste-Henri-Marie Picot de DAMPIERRE (1756-1793), a general who distinguished himself in the battle of Valmy and Jemmapes and died in combat.
		His body was withdrawn at the request of terrible Couthon of the Comité de Salut Public which suspected him of treason.
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	THE TERROR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With his disciples, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, the pitiless and terrifying young man who was soon to earn the title Angel of Death from his colleagues, and the crippled lawyer Georges Couthon, who was confined to a wheelchair by paralyzing meningitis?Robespierre shaped the policies of the twelve.
		Even Couthon and Saint-Andre’, who had been sent to the provinces on missions of revenge, returned to Paris disgusted with the excesses of their provincial colleagues.
		About eleven o’clock, Robespierre arrived, flanked by Saint-Just and Couthon, and took his seat among the deputies of the Center, so as to be near the president’s bench.
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	History 14: Ideas in the Western Tradition: modern era (Hutton)
		In August 1792, these radical groups succeeded in fomenting a Parisian insurrection that toppled the constitutional monarchy.
		This popular insurrection was sustained by the mutual sympathies between a radical element of the bourgeoisie active in the political clubs of Paris (especially the Jacobin Club and the Cordeliers Club) and the sans culottes of Paris, who had come to dominate local (ward-level) politics.
		Under the strain of these tensions, differences among the leaders of the Revolution crystallized, and these differences were epitomized in the conflict between Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre.
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	The Economic Terror of the French Revolution
		The economic and financial misdeeds of some of Georges Danton's closest friends, such as the aspiring author, Fabre D' Eglantine and the not-so-close associate, ex-Capuchin, François Chabot, in part, predicated the fall of the Titan of the Revolution.
		In his speech of 8 Thermidor (July 26), he explained that he would continue to exterminate wayward Deputies and other enemies of the revolution and would achieve that ultimate goal, the establishment of his Republic of Virtue inspired by his cult of the Supreme Being.
		The Reign of Terror ended with the fall of Maximilien Robespierre.(3) In the wake of the Thermidorean reaction that followed, the French revolutionists, and later the ruling Directory, instituted laissez faire capitalism.
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	Maximilien Robespierre biography - Reign of Terror
		This policy led to the so-called Reign of Terror and to the execution of the revolutionary leaders Jacques René Hébert (March 24th 1794) and Georges Jacques Danton (April 6th 1794).
		Both Hébert and Danton were politicians whose preferred policies were inconsistent with the pure Rousseauism that was Robespierre's guiding principle.
		Although these captives were promptly rescued by soldiers loyal to the Commune of Paris and brought to the Hotêl de Ville the Convention ordered the National Guard to move to recapture Robespierre who subsequently received a gunshot wound to the lower jaw during his recapture.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /historical/biography/maximilien_robespierre.html (1358 words)

	LA NUEVA CUBA
		The Convention had cowardly caved in to the Parisian mobs and expelled the Girondin opposition, whose heads had been repeatedly demanded by the dregs of the sans-culottes, the insurrectionary Commune, and the radical Sections of Paris.
		As for the assassination of Marat on July 13, 1793, Whaley buys into the propaganda of the radical Jacobins themselves, Fabre d¹Eglantine, Georges Couthon, the corrupt ex-priest Chabot, and Robespierre, who used the episode as the needed, final excuse to exterminate the Girondins and their friends.
		Conveniently, the tyrannical and bloodthirsty careers of Robespierre, Saint-Just, Couthon, Collot d¹Herbois, Billaud-Varenne, etc., of the Committee of Public Safety at the height of the Great Terror were not subject to this study.
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	Georges Couthon — Infoplease.com
		As commissioner there he proved most humane, in contrast with his successor Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois.
		Couthon fell with Robespierre in the coup of 9
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	Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming
		Then, amazingly, word arrived by courier from Paris that Robespierre, Saint-Just, and their fellow Jacobin Georges Auguste Couthon had been shouted down by the National Convention and arrested.
		The next morning, after witnessing a screaming Couthon struggle mightily for fifteen minutes and Saint-Just submit without a word, a semiconscious Robespierre, who had been wounded by a bullet in the face during his arrest, was dragged up to the platform and strapped onto a plank.
		The bandage was torn from his shattered jaw before his head was pushed through a little window, causing him to cry out in pain seconds before the steel blade descended.
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	Couthon, Georges - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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		Couthon fell with Robespierre in the coup of 9 Thermidor
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