This is a partial list of people associated with the French Revolution, including supporters and opponents. Note that not all people listed here were French. {|

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("Merlin de Douai") || Director; later a Bonapartist. ("Mirabeau") || Represented the Third Estate in the Estates-General of 1789, despite being a noble; remained a major political figure throughout the rest of his life. ("Montesquieu") || Enlightenment political philosopher; influenced Revolutionary thinking

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("Prieur de la Côte-d'Or") || Engineer; Committee of Public Safety member; Carnot associate; turned against Robespierre on 9 Thermidor; Council of Five Hundred member during Directory. ("Crieur de la Marne") || National Constituent Assembly secretary; Committee of Public Safety member; exiled following Bourbon Restoration.

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(Manon-Jeanne Roland, née Philpon) || Jean-Marie Roland's wife; author of influential Revolutionary writings under Roland's name; salonière; guillotined.

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(Thérésa Tallien, née Teresa Cabarrús) || Her moderating influence on her husband Jean Lambert Tallien saved lives in the wake of 9 Thermidor, earning her the moniker Notre-Dame de Thermidor ("Our Lady of Thermidor"). ("Talleyrand") || Clergyman and diplomat; initially a royalist, then revolutionary; co-wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and the Civil Constitution of the Clergy; survived 9 Thermidor to become Foreign Minister under Directory, Bonaparte and the Bourbon Restoration.

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(François-Marie Arouet) || Enlightenment author and philosopher whose writings influenced Revolutionary thinking.