Claude-François de Payan (4 May 1766,

Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux (; oc, label= Vivaro-Alpine, Sant Pau de Tricastin), sometimes known as -en-Tricastin, is a commune, an administrative region, in the Drôme department in southeastern France. Name The settlement is attested as ''Aug ...

- 28 July 1794, Paris) was a political figure of the

French Revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in coup of 18 Brumaire, November 1799. Many of its ...

. He was guillotined 28 July 1794 with 21 others during the

Thermidorian Reaction The Thermidorian Reaction (french: Réaction thermidorienne or ''Convention thermidorienne'', "Thermidorian Convention") is the common term, in the historiography of the French Revolution, for the period between the ousting of Maximilien Robespie ...

, including Saint-Just and Robespierre.

Life

Early career

Payan was from a noble family in the

Dauphiné The Dauphiné (, ) is a former province in Southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes. The Dauphiné was originally the Dauphiné of Viennois. In the 12th centu ...

, descended from the

count palatine A count palatine (Latin ''comes palatinus''), also count of the palace or palsgrave (from German ''Pfalzgraf''), was originally an official attached to a royal or imperial palace or household and later a nobleman of a rank above that of an or ...

s, which had held important army and magistrate posts. His father was the squire François de Payan and so Claude-François naturally joined an artillery regiment before the Revolution. On the Revolution he was highly enthused by the new ideas and fully subscribed to them. His elder brother

Joseph-François de Payan Joseph-François de Payan, known as Payan-Dumoulin (9 February 1759, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - Alixan, 20 May 1852) was a political figure during the French Revolution, as was his younger brother Claude-François de Payan Claude-François de ...

was also a revolutionary.

Departmental roles

Actions in Paris

National agent in Paris

A rigorous policy

Thermidor

Sources

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Albert Soboul Albert Marius Soboul (27 April 1914 – 11 September 1982) was a historian of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. A professor at the Sorbonne, he was chair of the History of the French Revolution and author of numerous influential ...

, ''Dictionnaire historique de la Révolution française'', Paris, PUF, 2005 *
Notes et archives 1789–1794

References

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