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Billaud-Varenne, Jean Nicolas (zhäk nēkōlä` bēyō`-värĕn`), 1756–1819, French revolutionary. A violent antimonarchist in the Convention, the revolutionary national assembly, he and Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois Collot d'Herbois, Jean Marie (zhäN märē` kōlō` dĕrbwä`)
..... Click the link for more information. were the two members of the ultrarevolutionary Hebértists (see Hébert, Jacques René Hébert, Jacques René (zhäk rənā` ābĕr`), 1757–94, French journalist and revolutionary.
..... Click the link for more information. ) faction to sit on the Committee of Public Safety. A consumate politician, he survived the execution of Hébert, sucessfully intruiged against Georges Danton Danton, Georges Jacques (zhōrzh zhäk däNtôN`)
..... Click the link for more information. , and helped bring about the downfall of Robespierre Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore (mäksēmēlyăN` märē` ēzēdôr` rôbĕspyĕr`)
..... Click the link for more information. on 9 Thermidor Thermidor (thûr`mĭdôr, Fr. tĕrmēdôr`), 11th month of the French Revolutionary calendar .
..... Click the link for more information. . He was deported to French Guiana for his role in the Reign of Terror Reign of Terror, 1793–94, period of the French Revolution characterized by a wave of executions of presumed enemies of the state. Directed by the Committee of Public Safety, the Revolutionary government's Terror was essentially a war dictatorship, instituted to
..... Click the link for more information. . He refused an amnesty offered by Napoleon Bonaparte (later Emperor Napoleon I Napoleon I (nəpō`lēən, Fr. näpôlāōN`), 1769–1821, emperor of the French, b.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Ultimately he went to Haiti, where he died.