Claude-François de Payan

Claude-François de Payan (14 May 1766, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - 28 July 1794, Paris) was a political figure of the French Revolution.

He was guillotined 28 July 1794 with 21 others during the Thermidorian Reaction, including Saint-Just and Robespierre.

Life

Early career

Payan was from a noble family in the Dauphiné, descended from the count palatines, 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 was also a revolutionary.

Sources

(French) Albert Soboul, Dictionnaire historique de la Révolution française, Paris, PUF, 2005

(French) Notes et archives 1789-1794

References

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 5043529 ISNI: 0000 0000 0891 3737 BNF: cb12540756p (data)

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