Death: 25th July 1794Cause of Death: Guillotined
Location: Cimetière de Picpus, Paris, France
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French poet and victim of the French Revolution. He was guillotined for alleged "crimes against the state", just three days before the end of the Reign of Terror. After his execution by guillotine at Place de la Nation his decapitated body was taken to the Cimetière de Picpus where it was thrown into a mass grave along with 1306 other executed men and women.
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