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18	!The Main Trio
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20	The main protagonists and viewpoint characters. In the National Convention, they belong to the Mountain ("le Montagne"), the most far-left faction (unofficially affiliated with the Cordeliers and Jacobin clubs). They sit on the highest benches in the Convention and are known as "Montagnards". Eventually, the Mountain splits into the "Dantonists" (or the "Indulgents") and the "Robespierrists".
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23	[[folder:Georges-Jacques Danton]]
24	!!Georges-Jacques Danton
25	!!!Georges-Jacques d'Anton, Maître d'Anton, Captain d'Anton, The Marius of the Paris Masses, L'homme de dix août, Citizen Danton
26	-->''"Reputation is a whore, and those who talk about posterity are hypocrites and fools.''"
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28	A respectable if dangerously ambitious lawyer. Though he is regarded as a thug and a demogogue by both the Orléanists and smaller players like Brissot, Danton's personal magnetism and gift for oratory gathers a devoted following. He is congenial, talented, charmingly belligerent, and genuinely likes people. A hulking beast of a man with a fierce, scarred countenance, Danton also has a reputation for brutality which he never quite lives up to; his fondness for intimidation tactics is far outweighed by his personable nature and ability to make friends easily. Makes his fortune and niche in history when he near-single-handedly overthrows the French monarchy on August 10, 1792, and is elected Minister of Justice under the Provisional Government. He remains (with the exception of Robespierre) the most influential statesman in France until he is executed two years later, on charges of corruption and counter-revolution.
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30	Silver-tongued, vainglorious and ugly as sin, Danton's keen understanding of politics, willingness to play the long game, and prestige in the Revolution help his career to withstand much scrutiny over his corrupt financial enterprises, but his luck will run out eventually. Formerly known under the professional name ''d'Anton''.
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32	* AchillesInHisTent: He's accused of doing this during the Terror.
33	-->'''Hérault''': Do tell Danton I think he's taking the time-biding to excess.
34	* AffablyEvil: Even his detractors admit that Danton is highly likable and fun to be around, with a great sense of humor.
35	* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Loves to do this to Camille.
36	* BenevolentBoss: Danton is famous for his generosity and loves to been seen as a provider, though this trope is played rather darkly and is indicative of his tendency to see things in commodified terms.
37	* BigBadDuumvirate: With Robespierre, in the view of the Gironde.
38	* BlatantLies: When he meets Lafayette.
39	-->'''Danton''': And a great admirer of yours, Monsieur.
40	* CompellingVoice: A mundane example. His resonant, dynamic, authoritative voice is described as a "professional asset" and goes a very long way in commanding loyalty and respect.
41	* TheCorruptible: To the point that the Gironde nominates him for the post of "Minister of Justice" because they like the irony.
42	* EvilVirtues: Playfully lampshades this during his interview with Father Kéravenen, when he says he's indulged in each of the [[SevenDeadlySins Seven Deadly Sins]] "except Sloth," and that he has instead been "sinfully diligent".
43	%%* FaceOfAThug: He knows it, and knows how to use it to his advantage.
44	* FalseRapeAccusation: Courtesy of Babette Duplay, who claims he sexually assaulted her while she was visiting Etienne Panis' wife in Sèvres, where Danton's secondary residence is. The accusation is never brought to public light, however, and Danton never even finds out about it.
45	* FarmBoy: Comes from a respectable, though not well-off family in obscure, pastoral Arcis-sur-Aube. Fabre [[LampshadeHanging explicitly calls him this]] when they first meet.
46	* FatBastard: His bulky manual-laborer's build degenerates into corpulence as he ages.
47	%%* {{Foil}}: For Robespierre.
48	* ForeignCultureFetish: A collector of English literature and poetry, who also speaks several foreign languages fluently. One of his main regrets is that his choice of path in life restricts him from indulging in his wanderlust, expect when overseeing military campaigns in Belgium. This naturally gets used against him once the French Republic is officially at war with England, and serves as a contrast with the mildly-xenophobic Robespierre.
49	-->'''Danton''': It seems Robespierre reads no modern language but his own, which is a shame. I wonder, if we go to war with England, shall I have to hide my books of Shakespeare, my Adam Smith?
50	%%* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: The Cynic.
51	%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine.
52	* GoingNative: Camille accuses him of wanting to do this when he emigrates to England after the Orléanist coup fails. And since Danton hates Paris and spends as much time as possible in the country, it remains a significant source of anxiety for him.
53	* HeManWomanHater: "I'd rather be dead than a woman."
54	* KavorkaMan: Has a whole bevy of mistresses, despite being hideously disfigured and overweight.
55	* MayDecemberRomance: With Louise Gély, who he marries when he is thirty-three and she is sixteen.
56	* NominalHero: Few of his traits are (morally) admirable by most metrics, and at best he's a decent, rather than particularly good, person.
57	%%* NouveauRiche
58	* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: A combination of this trope and the above-mentioned [[UniversallyBelovedLeader 100% Adoration Rating]] is how he takes over the government in '91.
59	%%* OpportunisticBastard: But he's smart enough to make it work.
60	* {{Pride}}: His [[FatalFlaw Fatal Flaw]]. Mme. Gély calls him [[AwesomeEgo "the most arrogant man on Earth"]].
61	-->'''Danton''': No. They wouldn't dare.
62	-->'''Albertine Marat''': ''(mockingly)'' Oh, they wouldn't dare, wouldn't they? Tell me, Citizen, when were we ever wrong?
63	* RousingSpeech: His specialty. Danton is an extraordinarily compelling public speaker who can effortlessly persuade an audience of almost anything. It makes him an excellent lawyer and highly desirable political ally, but his manipulative rhetorical tactics also get him branded a demogogue.
64	* SentimentalDrunk: Displayed on a few occasions, though he's more of an Existential Drunk.
65	* SleazyPolitician: He is definitely this, though like most assumptions about him the truth proves to be rather more complicated than that. He’s at peak-corruption during his tenure as Minister of Justice, but mellows out and becomes more self-reflective once the Terror starts to set in.
66	%%* SlouchOfVillainy: And in the King's chair, no less!
67	%%* TooCleverByHalf: Him and Camille both fit this trope perfectly.
68	* UglyGuyHotWife: While Gabrielle is only moderately good-looking, Danton is described by several characters as the ugliest man they've ever seen.
69	* UniversallyBelovedLeader: Among the common people. Danton boasts that if every citizen had a vote, he could be King of France, and it's not an exaggeration.
70	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In the scene where Dumouriez offers to help him reinstate a constitutional monarchy. Danton politely refuses and prompty denounces Dumouriez at the Convention, saving his career and the Republic—but he doesn’t arrest him, allowing Dumouriez to flee the country.
71	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Due to his facial scarring, massive build, and girth.
72	-->'''Danton''': She's sixteen, I'm only thirty-three. Marriages like that are made every day.
73	-->'''M. Gély''': We had thought you were older.
74	%%* YoungFutureFamousPeople
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77	[[folder:Camille Desmoulins]]
78	!!Camille Desmoulins
79	!!!Maître Desmoulins, The Lanterne Attorney, My Lord Prosecutor to the Lanterne, Citizen Camille, Little Camille
80	-->''"I loathe firm government.''"
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82	The neurotic, mercurial, sharp-tongued [[EnfantTerrible Enfant Terrible]] of the Revolution. Camille is also a lawyer. Noted for his uncanny ability to turn his personal associations into seriously enviable political advantage: Camille is Robespierre's best friend since childhood and Danton's closest political confidante (and later his official secretary). After retiring early from a failed career as a barrister, Camille finds his true calling as a radical pamphleteer and controversialist. He is particularly favored by Danton, quickly inserting himself as the preeminent propogandist for his faction–a situation which doesn't please everyone, as Camille is an infamous reprobate who can be absolute hell to work with. However, he is also incredibly intelligent and charming, and his unique talent for inspiring in others the extremes of love and hate does not go unnoticed by those more powerful than him. He also has a stutter.
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84	%%* AttentionWhore
85	* ArrangedMarriage: With his [[KissingCousins cousin, Rose-Fleur Godard]], but her father calls it off when he finds out that Camille slept with his (older, male) law professor.
86	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Camille is a creature of whim, to put it mildly.
87	* ByronicHero: Camille is a genius with excellent political instincts, natural charisma, and beauty. Too bad he's also fickle, lazy, spiteful, thoughtless, tempermental, and narcissistic.
88	%%* BrokenPedestal: First Mirabeau, then Marat.
89	* CassandraTruth: In Part Five, Camille is the only one of the Montagnards to publicly denounce the Terror. [[TooCleverByHalf He almost gets away with it.]]
90	%%* TheConsigliere: Basically his role with regards to Danton.
91	* DaddyIssues: Definitely. Robespierre even suggests that his falling out with Mirabeau was a twisted projection of Camille’s anger at his father.
92	%%* DepravedBisexual: How Gabrielle sees him, at first.
93	%%-->'''Camille''': I’m afraid it’s just my mere existence that irks Gabrielle. Imagine, my desperate finacée turns up at her doorstep, and she still thinks I’m trying to inveigle you into bed with me.
94	%%-->'''Danton''': Aren't you?
95	* DesperatelyCravesAffection: He’s motivated largely by the constant pursuit of validation, both positive and negative. This is also why he succumbs to Mirabeau, even knowing he's a grifter: Mirabeau gives him lots of attention and feeds his ego.
96	%%* DyingAsYourself: Tragically averted.
97	* EnemyMine: With Marat, who sees him as a disappointment but knows Camille is his best chance for mainstream representation.
98	* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Cherubic, likable Camille has led mob riots, threatened to commit [[SuicideByCop Suicide by Police]] and gotten dozens of innocent people killed.
99	* ForgetsToEat: Habitually, though it's particularly extreme during his writing binges, when he's described as "living on alcohol".
100	%%* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: An unsually dark version of the Optimist.
101	%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric.
102	%%* TheGadfly: And it turns out to come in very handy!
103	%%-->'''Danton''': Visualize it: Our man [Saint-Just] the picture of starched rectitude, and looking like he’s just devoured a beefsteak, Camille will make some pithy remarks at his expense, and talk about ’89. Cheap trick, but the galleries will love it. What we must do is provoke the young fellow to anger. Not an easy task, but I ''guarrantee'' Camille can do it.
104	%%* GreenEyedMonster: To Louise Danton and Antoine Saint-Just.
105	* HomoeroticSubtext: The main purveyor of this; in "Blackmail," Gabrielle outright states that Camille is in love with Danton.
106	* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Has this in spades; it usually manifests as a tendency to act entitled to praise.
107	* KickTheDog: As the story goes on, Camille develops the unattractive tendency to verbally bully women he views as a threat, specifically Eléonore Duplay and Louise Danton.
108	* LadykillerInLove: With Lucile. Though this doesn't stop him from having casual affairs, he has no romantic interest towards anyone else.
109	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: About being the architect of the Gironde’s downfall. “My friends are dead, and my words have killed them.”
110	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His moniker "The Lanterne Attorney," in reference to his infamous (technically anonymous) second pamphlet which endorsed the lynching of aristocrats by hanging them from street lanterns.
111	%%* {{Narcissist}}: Annette accuses him of being this.
112	* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: A firm believer in this. Camille is overjoyed when he hears a printer's shop has been ransacked for selling his pamphlets, saying it guarrantees him a second edition.
113	%%* NumberTwo: Danton's.
114	%%* OffToBoardingSchool: At age seven.
115	* OlderThanTheyLook: Looks like a teenager all throughout his twenties, and looks like a ''young'' twentysomething well into his thirties. A rather dark application of this trope, considering how young he is when he dies.
116	-->''(Upon meeting Camille, who is twenty-nine years old)''
117	-->'''Abbé de Bourville''': You haven't changed a bit. You look about nineteen.
118	* PrettyBoy: Boyishly handsome and slightly effeminate, in contrast with the brutish, rugged-looking Danton, as well as more conventionally handsome types like Hérault and Dillon.
119	%%* ReallyGetsAround: As Danton puts it, he's "bloody horizontal."
120	* RefugeInAudacity: Camille's entire M.O. is this. It’s main reason he flies under the radar in the beginning; Camille’s republicanism was so fringe as to be laughable.
121	%%* SoapboxSadie: The reason he's such a bad lawyer.
122	%%-->''A gaggle of students followed him, as if he was some great jurist... They noted his ability to to twist the most mundane judicial dictum into the pronouncement of some engirt tyrant, whose fortress he and he alone must storm.''
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124	%%-->'''Camille''': I object to the use of the courts as instruments of the intrusive moralizing state.
125	* SarcasticDevotee: To Danton, though it’s subverted in that Camille does harbor genuine doubts about his sincerity at various points.
126	%%* SugarAndIcePersonality: Extremely so, to an almost bipolar degree.
127	* SurvivorsGuilt: It's suggested that Camille is dealing with some repressed [[SurvivorsGuilt Survivor's Guilt]] after his failure to save Suleau, and this gets turned up during [[TheReignOfTerror the Terror.]]
128	* TeenGenius: Of the [[BrilliantButLazy Brilliant, But Lazy]] variety.
129	* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Jean-Pierre Brissot and Anne Théroigne in the ‘80s. He falls out with both of them, and Camille eventually works to frame Brissot for treason.
130	%%* {{Unperson}}: Becomes this after his execution.
131	* UsedToBeASweetKid: Every character who knew Camille as a child constantly says this about him.
132	* WideEyedIdealist: He's this deep down, but it's usually overshadowed by his vindictive streak.
133	* WoundedGazelleGambit: A frequent tactic of his. Danton accuses him of playing up his stutter to make himself seem more pitiable.
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138	[[folder:Maximilien Robespierre]]
139	!!Maximilien Robespierre (né ''de Robespierre'')
140	!!!Thing, M. de Robespierre, Deputy Robespierre, The Candle of Arras, The Rabid Lamb, The Incorruptible, Saint Maximilien, Citizen Robespierre, Max, Maxime
141	-->''"Perhaps he is keeping something from me. People do tend to keep things from me.''"
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143	A shy, mild-mannered, and diligent ''pro bono'' lawyer from Arras. The exact opposite of Danton in every arena except politics, Robespierre has many loyal associates but few friends. He is deeply earnest, austere, strident, self-serious, pedantic, and almost pathetically honest, traits which inspire both derision and admiration bordering on religious awe. A staunch idealist, Robespierre is obsessed with the philosophy of [[Creator/JeanJacquesRousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] and the concept of ''vertu'', or civic virtue (hence his moniker "The Incorruptible"), and struggles with the constant denial of his associates' moral failings. Unlike Danton, he is neither charismatic nor likable, but Robespierre's quiet dignity and dry rectitude prove to have their own attractions.
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145	He is extremely sickly, and plagued by bouts of illness.
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147	* AccidentalMisnaming: Characters often remark that his name is odd or difficult to remember, and Mirabeau refers to him as "Robespère," "Robertpère," "Robertspierre," and "Robinspère" over the course of their first conversation to drive home his [[BeneathNotice Beneath Notice]] status.
148	* TheAntiNihilist: A major part of his character. He’s the most religiously-inclined of the revolutionaries.
149	* BastardAngst: The reason he never, ''ever'', mentions his parents. It's unlikely even Camille knows this about him, as Max had lived with the Duplays for almost two years before they even learned his parents were dead.
150	* BerserkButton: Danton pushes his ''hard'' when he gloats to Robespierre about Camille "dabbling in sodomy" and implies that Camille is attracted to him. It's particularly effective because it fuses all of Robespierre's most sensitive and deep-seated issues: his obsession with moral perfection, his fear of the erotic, his perception of Danton as a corruptive influence, and his own feelings of inadequacy. Danton basically forces him to confront the fact that the people he loves and considers good aren't necessarily able or willing to conform to his moral code, completely shattering his projected "innocent" image of Camille. Robespierre finds this revelation to unbearably painful to consider and represses it, and this interaction becomes further emotional fodder against Danton.
151	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Though he's socially inept, he's very pleasant and often tender once you've earned his trust. At worst he's condescending and snappish. However, he is single-minded and pitiless in pursuing his objectives.
152	%%* BloodFromTheMouth: A symptom of his stomach ulcers.
153	* ButtMonkey: As a deputy to the National Assembly. He's given the cruel appellations "The Rabid Lamb" and "The Candle of Arras" (comparing him unfavorably to Mirabeau, "The Torch of Provence") and the galleries constantly boo and heckle him when he speaks.
154	* CelibateHero: In-universe he is famous for it, which earns him [[VirginShaming mockery]] (Danton calls him ‘The Great Eunuch’ and spreads a rumor that he’s impotent) but also allows him to lay claim to a Christian moral high ground, and benefits his reputation in the eyes of the more moralistic characters. In this version, Robespierre has only one serious, long-term sex partner (Eléonore).
155	%%* ClassicalAntiHero: Starts out as one of these.
156	%%* ConfirmationBias: Too many examples to list. Indulging in this trope constantly becomes a serious problem for him.
157	%%-->'''Danton''': He feels something, in his heart, and then he works out a way to it in his head. Then he tells us the head part came first, and we believe him.
158	* CryingWolf: It’s implied that Robespierre is actually correct when he says that Lucile was always faithful to Camille, but by this point has erroneously denied his friends’ bad behavior so many times that Saint-Just immediately disbelieves him.
159	* DarkSecret: His illegitimate birth, and his family history in general.
160	* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the coldly logical [[PrinciplesZealot Principles Zealot]]. His character shows the "principles" and "logic" parts as being contradictory and in constant conflict. Far from an robotic rationalist, Robespierre is in fact highly emotional, and its the combination of his deeply emotion-driven personal code and his ability to delude himself into believing he is acting rationally that motivate his most unthinkable actions, the latter being a psychological alibi for actions which are clearly motivated by vanity, circumstantial grudges, and personal predjudices.
161	* DelicateAndSickly: Chronically–he has asthma, anemia, and is physically frail. His various health problems worsen as the story continues: he develops stomach ulcers and facial tics from stress, lacks appetite, is bedridden every few months, and looks prematurely aged.
162	* DivorceRequiresDeath: He feels trapped into a relationship with Eléonore, but he sense of debt towards the Duplays is such that he can't bring himself to reject her. Robespierre laments to himself that even thought divorce is now legal, the only way he would be able to leave Eléonore is if one of them dies.
163	* EmptyShell: On an emotional level, this is what he has become by the end of the novel.
164	-->'''Fouquier''': He is ruined, corrupted. A savior bled dry. They have broken his heart.
165	%%* EvilVirtues: It would be easier to list the ones he doesn't have.
166	* {{Fanboy}}: Of Rousseau. He's known and mocked for carrying around a pocket copy of ''Le Contrat social'' (which he ''will'' quote at length in conversation) and thinks Rousseau's novel ''La Nouvelle Heloïse'' is the greatest novel of the century. Camille even does [[BriefAccentImitation an impression]] of him where he imagines Robespierre's copy of ''Le Contrat social'' saving him from being pierced by a musket ball.
167	* TheFettered: His primary character trait.
168	-->'''Robespierre''': I am forever coming into rooms and saying, "no, don't tell me," and "sweep that under the rug before I come in."
169	%%* {{Foil}}: For Danton.
170	%%* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: A cross between the Realist and the Conflicted.
171	%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: A cross between Phlegmatic and Melancholic.
172	%%* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Except Camille.
173	* HatesBeingTouched: Or touching other people. One of his most striking points of contrast with Danton.
174	-->'''Danton''': I'll be on my best behavior, and I promise not to slap [Robespierre] on the back in that hearty man-to-man fashion he finds so terrifying.
175	* HeyYou: Characters deliberately or accidentally forgetting (or mispronouncing) his unusual name is a [[RunningGag Running Gag]]. His fellow students at the Louis-le-Grand call him "Thing," and the royalist newspapers mispell his name on purpose to insult him.
176	* ImpoverishedPatrician: Comes from a family of these, on his father's side. His mother's family were in the brewing trade.
177	* IncorruptiblePurePureness: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]], obviously, but the trope itself is averted: Robespierre has been thoroughly corrupted by the end, [[DeconstructedTrope just not in the way you'd expect]].
178	* PurityPersonified: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] On paper, Robespierre is the ideal politician: steadfastly honest, genuinely altruistic, sensitive, responsible, intelligent, and conscientious. Once he gains power, each of these qualities only serve to make him a [[FailureHero crushing failure]], and transform his sterling virtues into destructive weaknesses: his natural honesty also makes him extremely indecisive, his altruism turns him into an ideologue, sensitivity gives way to crippling self-doubt, what used to be perspicacity becomes paranoia. Adding in his pathological aversion to conflict is... not a recipe for stable governance. Even his stalwart belief in self-government is turned against him, as he becomes overwhelmed with responsibility and comes to increasingly rely on those he delegates, who share his ideology but not his scruples.
179	-->'''Lindet''': Robespierre is a dreamer, he's a prophet... but what record have prophets, as heads of government?
180	* JadeColoredGlasses: [[TruthInTelevision He literally wears these]], though the trope itself is [[AvertedTrope averted]] hard.
181	%%* LawfulStupid
182	* LoveRuinsTheRealm: He becomes convinced this will happen if he insists upon sparing [[MoralityPet Camille]]. He [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight almost does so anyway]], until his colleauges threaten to depose him.
183	* ManlyTears: Breaks down in tears at the Jacobins in his attempt to convince them to maintain Camille’s membership. The rare public display of emotion humanizes him, and he gets his way.
184	* MessianicArchetype: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] both in- and out-of-universe. Robespierre's character is constantly surrounded by religious metaphors and imagery.
185	-->'''Camille''': Then I revert to my former conviction. Clearly [Robespierre] is Jesus Christ. He has even deigned to be adopted by a carpenter.
186	* NearDeathExperience: During the Champ-de-Mars massacre, when he is accosted and almost murdered by French Guards.
187	* PhotoOpWiththeDog: In '93, when Danton is facing increasing scrutiny over his financial corruption, Robespierre gives a big try-hard speech to the Jacobin Club about how patriotic Danton is. Danton then does the same for him.
188	* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Much of the the story’s development is concerned with showing how Robespierre goes from a place of absolute pacifism to the point where he is able to sanction the murder of his only real friend.
189	%%* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: The real reason he never marries.
190	* QuestionableConsent: Downplayed, but Eléonore’s plan to seduce him amounts to her ambushing him in his office nude, knowing he’ll be too afraid of offending her to refuse.
191	%%* RedheadInGreen: In his final appearance.
192	* TheReliableOne: He’s considered to be an absolute black hole of charisma and generally a bore, but also unfailingly professional, levelheaded, and competent. This is in contrast to Camille, who is effortlessly charming and often scarily effective, but erratic and unreliable.
193	%%* RousseauWasRight: Literally, Rousseau is his idol.
194	* SelectiveObliviousness: Raises this to an art form. Danton calls him out on it in "Ambivalence":
195	-->'''Danton''': I don't believe you're really this naive. I think it's a tactic; I think you're being deliberately obtuse.
196	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Extremely verbose and prone to run-on sentences. It doesn't help that he's a frankly terrible communicator in general.
197	* SharpDressedMan: His "only luxury". While post-Revolution fashion values deliberate slovenliness (even Danton stops powdering his hair and often goes ''sans-cravat'') Robespierre is always perfectly coiffed and decked out in full Ancien Régime regalia. [[TruthInTelevision Truth in Television]].
198	* ThouShaltNotKill: He considers this to be his most deeply-held conviction. As a deputy to the Assembly, he campaigns four times for the abolition of the death penalty (needless to say, without success). Also needless to say, he gets over it.
199	* TranquilFury: When he finds out Fabre's been playing him like a fiddle on the [[TheConspiracy East India Company affair]], he is so angry he cannot speak for several minutes.
200	* TyrantTakesTheHelm: The book ends with him effectively doing this, having eliminated his only serious rival, Danton.
201	* VirginShaming: A frequent target of this, especially from Danton. However, while he is notably sexually inexperienced, he’s not a virgin.
202	* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: How he justifies the Terror, though its complicated in that Robespierre does realize deep down that the "Republic of Virtue" is a pipe dream, but this revelation comes too late and Robespierre concludes that he is [[TheLetMeBeEvil In Too Deep]] to makes a hardline switch toward clemency.
203	%%* YoungFutureFamousPeople
204	[[/folder]]
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206	!!Characters primarily associated with Danton
207	!!!In Troyes
208	[[folder:Fabre d'Églantine]]
209	!!Fabre d'Églantine
210	!!!Citizen Fabre, Philippe Fabre
211	-->''"Basically, I am a humble man.''"
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213	An eccentric traveling actor, [[RenaissanceMan playwright, director, painter, choreographer, portraitist]], and unemployable amateur who adopted the surname ''"d'Églantine"'' to commemorate receiving an wreath of eglantine in a literary competition. In reality, Fabre is a charlatan and small-time financial fraudster, and the eglantine wreath story was made up. He meets the teenaged Danton sketching portraits in the streets in Troyes, and they are later reunited in Paris, where Fabre becomes friendly with Camille and a member of Danton's inner circle. As a person, Fabre is theatrical, unrepentantly greedy, and prone to hysterics, which has both the advantage of making him easily underestimated, but also the disadvantage of making him difficult to take seriously. Fabre thinks of himself as a 'man who makes Men,' and not entirely mistakenly: he takes it upon himself to train Danton's voice (with great success) and tries to school Camille out of his stutter (with less success). His relationship with Danton is greatly textured: vaguely paternal and slavishly loyal, but also contingent on the continued receipt of wealth and glory. In the early '80s, he and Camille run in the same social milieu and briefly collaborate on a pornographic novel, and Camille meets many of his friends though Fabre. However, after '91, their relationship becomes much more superficial, as Camille never really respected him. Danton knows that Fabre is a criminal but keeps him around anyway because Fabre is loyal, a decision he will eventually come to regret. In fact, it is the revelation of Fabre's role in the East India Company Fraud that marks the beginning of the end for Danton, as Saint-Just correctly identifies him as the key to discrediting the Dantonists. Nothing Fabre says can be trusted (probably). His real name is Philippe.
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215	* BrickJoke: Whenever a song is whistled or sung (no matter how old or well-known) Fabre will claim to have composed it.
216	%%* HairTriggerTemper
217	* SkewedPriorities: Gets a few comedic moments to this effect.
218	-->'''Fabre''': My only regret is that I did not finish ''The Maltese Orange''. It had some beautiful verses in it. Now that talentless Collot will pass it off as his own. It'll be at the ''Italiens'' under that bastard plagiarist's name!
219	[[/folder]]
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221	!!!At the Cour de Commerce
222	[[folder:Gabrielle Danton]]
223	!!Antoinette-Gabrielle Danton (née ''Charpentier'')
224	-->''"There was a lot of very bad language that day.''"
225
226	Danton's first wife. A good-natured but unsophisticated half-Italian girl, Gabrielle's promised domestic tranquility curdles with the affairs of the Revolution. She is burdened by deep spiritual and ethical objections to Georges' activities, which she suppresses due to an upbringing that taught her always to acquiesce to her husband, but which manifest in depressive behavior and occasional lashing-out. As a result, Gabrielle confines herself with increasing fervor to the domestic sphere (which suits Georges fine), though this has only marginal success in assuaging her guilt. Despite the creature comforts it brings, her husband's rise to the top of the political world takes an irreparable toll on her psyche, as she endures being married to a man she increasingly comes to regard as a monster. Dies giving birth to her fourth child in 1792.
227	----
228	* SimpleMindedWisdom: Gets these moments very frequently. Take for instance her astute and uncharacteristically pragmatic take on women's equality:
229	-->'''Gabrielle''': I don't see why men would bother going about saying how women are equal to them. It seems against their interests.
230	%%* WetBlanketWife
231	%%* MyMasterRightOrWrong
232	[[/folder]]
233
234	[[folder:Louise Danton]]
235	!!Louise Danton (née ''Gély'')
236	!!!Louise Gély, Mademoiselle Gély, Little Louise, Citizeness Danton
237	-->''"Hero's your vocation, is it?''"
238
239	Danton's second wife, a pious, precocious young girl whose family lives upstairs from the Dantons, and formerly Gabrielle's close friend. After Gabrielle's death, Louise marries her former husband with the full intent of reforming him (and saving his immortal soul). She is more ruthless in this objective than Gabrielle ever was, but is very, ''very'' naive, managing to incur Camille's wrath but achieving little else. Nonetheless, Danton regards her with real appreciation for how different her perspective is from his own: she's female, she's in a completely different stage of life, and her life experience is totally alien to him. Louise is ten years old when she is introduced and sixteen by the story's conclusion.
240	----
241	* ButtMonkey: Louise is conservative and not overly bright, which makes her a perfect target for Camille.
242	[[/folder]]
243
244	%%[[folder:Legendre]]
245	%%!!Legendre
246	%%!!!Legendre the Butcher
247	%%-->''"I was their first target, you know. It was supposed to be me."''
248
249	%%Danton's downstairs neighbor; a master butcher. Sits with the Montagnards at the Convention. He is notably antagonistic towards Camille, who in turn treats him as an opportunistic blowhard and mocks his lack of formal education. A fair-weather friend.
250	%%----
251	%%* YesMan: To Danton.
252	%%[[/folder]]
253
254	[[folder:M. and Mme. Gély]]
255	!!M. and Mme. Gély
256	-->''"Take pity on us, Monsieur."''
257	->-M. Gély
258	-->''"He wants to murder her like he murdered his first wife."''
259	->-Mme. Gély
260	[[/folder]]
261
262	[[folder:François Robert]]
263	!!François Robert
264	-->''"We've forgotten what they're like. The People. How cruel they are.''"
265
266	An impoverished lecturer-in-law and partisan of Danton's. A generous, sweet-natured, Enlightened spirit sickeningly in love with his wife, Louise. After moving in on the rue des Cordeliers, the young couple opens a delicatessen which serves as a front for their seditious newspaper, the ''Mercure Nationale''. Gets picked up by French Guards during the storming of the Bastille, leading to a brief but traumatizing stint in prison which he never truly recovers from. By the end of '92, the Roberts are convicted of black-market speculation in rum, and while François' immunity is maintained, this results in the Roberts retiring to the provinces to be forgotten.
267	[[/folder]]
268
269	[[folder:Louise Robert]]
270	!!Louise Robert (née ''de Kéralio'')
271	-->''"I'll stick a knife in the pig myself.''"
272
273	A novelist, born into the real nobility. Ostracized by her aristocratic family after falling in love with and marrying the penniless François Robert and moving to Paris. In her youth, became friendly with fellow Academy of Arras member Maximilien de Robespierre, whose families were acquainted despite their class differences, and tried unsuccessfully to convince him to abscond to Paris in the early '80s. Louise doesn't exactly regret deserting the cause after '92, in no small part due to her severe personal difficulties with Danton (who doesn't quite know what do with her as a woman who is happily married, has political thoughts, and isn't sleeping with him).
274	[[/folder]]
275
276	!!!At the Café de l'École
277	[[folder:M. Charpentier]]
278	!!François-Jérôme Charpentier
279
280	Danton's father-in-law and Inspector of Taxes. Owner of the Café du Foy, (a.k.a. the Café de l'École) which Danton and Camille frequent. At some point during the early '80s. Danton borrows an unspecified (but very sizable) amount of money from him in order to pay his ex-mistress's fiancé for the purchase of his legal practice, and (clandestinely) paternity of his illegitimate child.
281	[[/folder]]
282
283	[[folder:Angélique]]
284	!!Angélique Charpentier (née ''Angelica Soldini'')
285	-->''"Dear son Georges, who shall it be this time? Who suffers this time?"''
286
287	Danton's Italian mother-in-law. A practical, earthy, hard-boiled type. Danton practices his Italian with her.
288	[[/folder]]
289
290	!!!At the Cour d'Assises
291	[[folder:Hérault de Séchelles]]
292	!!Jean-Marie Hérault de Séchelles
293	!!!Hérault, Citizen Hérault
294	-->''"Look, I can't help my birth. I try to atone for it, see?''"
295
296	A handsome young nobleman and legal dignitary who allies himself with Danton. A liberal reformer and initiate of the Queen's gambling circle, Hérault is the archetype of the [[IdleRich idle]] young aristocrat with a latent adrenaline-junkie habit (he describes July 4, 1789 as "the happiest day of my life"). Well-traveled and a collector, he initially sees Danton as yet another curiosity he's acquired; eventually, it becomes clear that Hérault is the one who's been acquired. Regards Danton with something akin to [[AdmiringTheAbomination morbid fascination]] which evolves in [[BecomingTheMask genuine]] (if politically necessary) loyalty. Maintains, like many of Danton's associates, a tempestuous relationship with Camille, with whom he has more in common than he'd like to admit. He is also the author of the political essay "A Theory of Ambition," and one of Lucile's admirers. Implicated in a treasonous conspiracy by his Austrian secretary Proli, Hérault returns from Alsace to a chilly welcome, though his pride prevents him from fleeing to save his life.
297	----
298	* TheAce: Good-looking, wealthy, sophisticated, charming, and a public intellectual.
299	* IdleRich: Which Camille never gets tired of mocking him for. After the revolution, he becomes a politician and spends all his time gambling and getting high.
300	* NightmareFetishist: There are hints that Hérault shares Camille's slight masochistic streak. During the last few months of his life, Hérualt becomes obsessed with public displays of violence during the Terror: he attends the executions at the Place de la Révolution religiously, and seeks out the most horrific denunciations ([[OffingTheOffspring parents against children]], children against parents). He's trying to desenstitize himself to what he sees as the "humiliation" of death.
301	-->'''Hérault''': I am learning how to die.
302	* StepfordSmiler
303	[[/folder]]
304
305	!!!Others
306	[[folder:Robert Lindet]]
307	!!Robert Lindet
308	!!!Citizen Lindet
309	-->''"I believe I am here to feed patriots, not murder them."''
310	A middle-aged lawyer from Normandy, and Danton's man on the Committee of Public Safety, where he is in charge of food supplies. Pragmatic, noncommittal, level-headed, and a pure survivalist. Has the rare honor of being a trusted advisor to both Danton and Robespierre, both of whom he also outlives.
311	[[/folder]]
312
313	[[folder:Dumouriez]]
314	!!General Charles Dumouriez
315	-->''"We have reached the core of you, Danton. You are an idealist!"''
316
317	A general in the French army, briefly Foreign Minister under Danton's Ministry of Justice. Offers to help Danton stage a royalist coup in '93. Though they are friends, Danton is forced to denounce him to save his career, and Dumouriez flees the country.
318	[[/folder]]
319
320	[[folder:Lacroix]]
321	!!Deputy Lacroix
322	-->''"Was it worth it? For the Belgian girls?"''
323
324	A Montagnard deputy who goes 'on mission' with Danton in Belgium in '92 and '93. Initially takes the fall for most of Danton's illegal activities abroad.
325	[[/folder]]
326
327	[[folder:Etienne Panis]]
328	!!Etienne Panis
329	[[/folder]]
330
331	[[folder:Claude Dupin]]
332	!!Claude Dupin
333	-->''"But do one thing for me, my dear. Stay away from Georges Danton."''
334
335	A good-looking young bureaucrat who proposes marriage to Louise Gély. She is at first highly infatuated with him, but ends up rejecting him after Dupin's humiliating supper interview with Danton.
336	[[/folder]]
337
338	[[folder:Mme. Recordain]]
339	!!Marie-Madeleine Recordain
340	[[/folder]]
341
342	!!Characters primarily associated with Camille
343
344	!!!At the rue Condé
345
346	[[folder: Lucile Desmoulins]]
347	!!Anne-Lucile Philippa Desmoulins (née ''Duplessis'')
348	!!!Citizeness Desmoulins, Lolotte, Lotte, Loup-loup
349	-->''"We want to be free, but oh God, the cost of it."''
350
351	A beautiful, clever young bourgeoise, Camille's wife. Also the daughter of his lover, Annette Duplessis. After being rejected by her mother, Camille proposes marriage to Lucile, who developed a serious crush on him while he tutored her in Latin. Her parents forbid the union and they carry on a secret correspondence for over a year before Annette finally relents. An insufferably well-educated, sheltered girl with a ''lot'' of time on her hands, Lucile grows magnificently into her intellectual and sexual power at the same time that she develops a taste for the kind of psychological mind games Camille loves, at the expense of her respectable parents and various eligible young suitors. Bold, witty, self-possessed, as capricious as Camille, politically astute yet an incurable romantic, Lucile has all the handsomest and most important men in Paris on her string, and is the longtime object of Danton's lust. She spends her time writing in her diary, throwing parties, practicing piano, reading novels, and cultivating a scandalous reputation flirting with eminent men. Despite the rumors of her impressive promiscuity being mostly unfounded, she is regarded by her women acquaintances as a temptress, and her supposed conquests are the subject of endless fascination in the tabloid press. However, Lucile's questionable fidelity has no effect on her infatuation with Camille, whom she regards as her soulmate. Despite his on-again, off-again sexual pursuit of her, Danton considers her a close friend and she is probably the only woman he really respects.
352	----
353	* LustObject: For Danton. And Fréron, and Hérault, and Dillon...
354	* MealTicket: Camille doesn't marry her for her money, but it's definite benefit:
355	-->'''Mirabeau''': Are you married?
356	-->'''Camille''': No, but in a way I am engaged.
357	-->'''Mirabeau''': Has she money?
358	-->'''Camille''': Quite a lot.
359	-->'''Mirabeau''': Good, excellent. One should live well, and at other peoples' expense if possible.
360	-->–
361	-->'''Gabrielle''': You know he is a pauper?
362	-->'''Lucile''': Oh, that doesn't matter, I have money.
363	-->'''Gabrielle''': Well, he can't just live off your money!
364	-->'''Lucile''': Why not? Lots of men live off their wives' money; it's quite respectable in some circles.
365	* SecondLove: To Camille.
366	* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Danton. [[spoiler: They (probably) don't.]]
367	[[/folder]]
368
369	[[folder:Claude Duplessis]]
370	!!Claude Duplessis
371	-->''"...Just as soon as the present crisis is over."''
372
373	Camille's father-in-law, a stuffy, [[BeleagueredBureaucrat beleaguered]] civil servant. Camille thinks of him as the embodiment of everything he most fears becoming: ineffectual, close-minded but not strong-willed, intrinsically unhappy and leading a passive life–in short, his father. Despite this, Camille makes habitual, futile bids for his approval. Claude resigns himself to living with Camille (whom as far as he's concerned ruined his life) the same way he resigns himself to everything which happens around him, but this attitude softens over the years, and he begins to think of his son-in-law somewhat affectionately, if not quite paternally. After seeing what the Terror reveals about Camille, Claude decides that Camille really is brave. And, unlike Camille's real father, Claude manages to get up the nerve to tell him this before it's too late.
374	[[/folder]]
375
376	[[folder:Annette Duplessis]]
377	!!Annette Duplessis
378	-->''"I should have had you put away in a convent. Busy with your plainchant, you wouldn't've been spying on people and practicing the art of manipulation."''
379
380	Lucile's mother, rich and bored and thoroughly available despite being married. Upon being introduced to her family, Camille becomes obsessed with Annette and they develop a painful, consuming, sexually frustrated relationship with each other. Though she wants him, Annette's bourgeois proprietary habits die hard and she rejects his advances. She regrets this decision at first: to get back at her, Camille proposes marriage to her daughter, and in the following year the nasty cocktail of Annette's self-loathing and Lucile's teenage rebellions almost tears their family apart. As the years pass, Annette eventually looks back with satisfaction at the restraint she showed when Camille first kissed her, and their relationship grows more placid and stable with Annette even taking on some aspects of a mentorship role towards the newlyweds, though she remains very much in love with Camille.
381	----
382	* StepfordSmiler: Type 2, which Camille takes advantage of.
383	-->'''Annette''': What made you think in the first place that I would give up the security of my happy marriage for a hole-in-corner affair with you?
384	-->'''Camille''': I just really think you would.
385	* ProperLady: Annette calls this trope "Splendid Woman" and cultivates a similar façade in her social life.
386	[[/folder]]
387
388	[[folder:Adèle Duplessis]]
389	!!Mlle. Adèle Duplessis
390	-->''"You're a selfish little bastard, aren't you, Camille?"''
391
392	Claude's elder, widowed daughter. Vaguely romantically linked with Robespierre, for whom she has unreciprocated feelings. Contrary to expectations, they never marry, and Robespierre becomes distanced from the Duplessis household as a result.
393	[[/folder]]
394
395	!!!Others
396
397	[[folder:Jean-Nicolas Desmoulins]]
398	!!Jean-Nicolas Desmoulins
399	-->''"If it's my heart, I blame Camille."''
400
401	Camille's stiff, emotionally-crippled father. A lawyer in Guise, Picardy.
402	[[/folder]]
403
404	[[folder:Marat]]
405	!!Dr. Jean-Paul Marat
406	!!!The People's Friend
407	-->''"I wonder if they realize how dangerous we are... You with your sweet smile, and me with my sharp knife."''
408
409	Editor of "The People's Friend." Marat is a strange, larger-than-life, and vaguely prophetic character who resides on the fringes of society. Notably, he is about twenty years older than the principal characters, and his prior history is the stuff of mystery and scandal: he performed dangerous experiments with electricity in London, he may have been an army physician, or perhaps (as Hérault speculates with a shudder) he was a tradesman who abandoned his wife and children to live as a vagabond and produce rabble-rousing writings? Marat is quite literally the aristocracy's worst nightmare: his life holds a unique type of horror for them, and he is the special ''bête noir'' of the Girondin faction. As for the rest: he is by a large margin the most mysterious and divisive character in the story, and almost everyone is at least a little afraid of him. Danton won't touch him with a ten-foot-pole, and Robespierre describes him as "spiritually ill" and struggles to reconcile the repulsion he feels for Marat with Marat's good opinion of him. However, he is most often seen interacting with Camille, whom he is trying to groom as his successor. The only certain things that can be said about him are that he represents the anarchist wing of the Left, and that he is a withered old misanthrope who never has a good word to say about anyone. Camille becomes disillusioned with him very early on, but they maintain a symbiotic relationship in which Camille informs on him for Danton with his knowing consent. Famously, he is assassinated in his home by Charlotte Corday in 1793, after which the "rue des Cordeliers" is renamed the "rue Marat." However, the spectre of his influence continues to haunt those who survive him. After his murder, Marat is widely propoganized as a symbol of revolutionary martyrdom, and a few months after his death his life has already taken on the quality of myth.
410	----
411	* BrutalHonesty: With emphasis on "brutal". Marat ''will'' tell you to your face exactly what he thinks of you, and chances are, you won't like it.
412	* TheEeyore: It's difficult to find a line of his that isn't a criticism, insult, or complaint of some sort.
413	[[/folder]]
414
415	[[folder:Suleau]]
416	!!Louis Suleau
417	-->''"Ask Max Robespierre. Ask the man with the conscience what matters more, his old pals or his new principles."''
418
419	Suleau is a beloved old school friend of Camille’s. A royalist and a reactionary, Suleau is Camille’s warmest admirer in private and his fiercest critic in public. Editor of the royalist newspaper “More Acts of the Apostles,” a rival to Camille’s “Révolutions de France”. Though Camille offers him no-questions-asked clemency during the August uprising, he refuses and is shot by Anne Théroigne at the Tuileries. Camille witnesses his murder, and never really gets over it.
420	[[/folder]]
421
422	[[folder:Fréron]]
423	!!Stanislàs Fréron
424	!!!Rabbit
425	-->''"We who want to change things are nothing but second-rate writers, Madame."''
426
427	Named after his great-grandfather the King of Poland, Fréron is another of Camille’s old school comrades, noted to be exceptionally well-connected. Editor of a literary periodical, and Camille's first 'patron,' their relationship is marred by Fréron's sexual obsession with Lucile and what he views as Camille's persistent ingratitude towards him. One of the original members of the Cordeliers Battalion with Danton, Hérualt, Fabre, and Camille. He survives the Dantonist purge, and subsequent to the end of the series, Fréron deserts the cause and becomes one of the most infamous figures of the Terror, leading roaming gangs of vandals through the streets of Paris, persecuting Jacobins.
428	----
429	* DoggedNiceGuy: To Lucile. At least, he sees himself as this.
430	[[/folder]]
431
432	[[folder:Dillon]]
433	!!General Arthur Dillon
434	-->''"Here's to liberty! So long as we may be, you know… at liberty to enjoy it."''
435
436	An aristocratic general in the French army, and governor of Tobago. An Irishman by birth, Dillon is considered the handsomest man in Paris, though has the look and manners of a caricature aristocrat. He is close with the Desmoulins', both of whom he is believed to be sleeping with. Dillon is imprisoned on charges of conspiracy twice; the first time, Camille uses his influence to get him out, the second time he is not so lucky. He is ultimately tried and executed alongside Lucile Desmoulins, his supposed mistress, a few weeks after Camille himself.
437	[[/folder]]
438
439	[[folder:Théroigne]]
440	!!Anne Théroigne de Méricourt
441
442	Théroigne is first introduced as an opera singer by trade and Fabre's mistress. Born in Liège (in present-day Belgium) under the name "Anne Terwagne," Anne styled herself "Théroigne de Méricourt" and spent her youth traveling and being kept by men of various rank and position. Meets Camille sometime before '89 and they have an instant connection, and after the July uprising she becomes an unofficial member of the staff of his newspaper, "Révolutions de France". Because she is a woman, Théroigne is relentlessly slandered and degraded in the royalist press, and thanks to "More Acts of the Apostles" she is believed to be a prostitute and Camille's doxy. On August 10th, Théroigne takes it upon herself to execute Suleau, the man who ruined her life. Sometime after, she is captured by the Austrian emperor's troopes, and during her imprisonment is [[RapeAsDrama gang-raped]] by his soldiers. When she returns to Paris in '91, Théroigne has lost her looks and develops severe mental issues. Distressed to find that Camille wants nothing to do with her after the Suleau incident, she ultimately decides to become a martyr and throws in her lot with Brissot at his trial. It fails, as she is considered too insignificant to be tried with the rest of the Brissotins. After Danton's fall, Théroigne is confined to the prison-asylum of La Salpêtrière by her brother, where she dies of illness in 1817.
443	[[/folder]]
444
445	[[folder:Philippeaux]]
446	!!Pierre Philippeaux
447
448	A journalist who writes a pamphlet against the government during the Terror. An analogue to Camille, though unlike the latter, his fate is fairly predictable.
449	[[/folder]]
450
451	!!Characters primarily associated with Robespierre
452
453	!!!At the rue saint-Honoré
454
455	[[folder:Maurice Duplay]]
456	!!Maurice Duplay
457	!!!Citizen Duplay
458
459	A humble middle-aged carpenter. Rescues and shelters Maximilien Robespierre in his home during the Champ-de-Mars massacre, and from then on devotes his life to him.
460	[[/folder]]
461
462	[[folder:Françoise Duplay]]
463	!!Mme. Françoise Duplay
464	[[/folder]]
465
466	[[folder:Eléonore Duplay]]
467	!!Mlle. Eléonore "Cornélia" Duplay
468	!!!Cornélia, Citizeness Robespierre, The Widow Robespierre
469	-->''"I don't play with dead things, Maximilien."''
470
471	Duplay's eldest daughter, whom her father is grooming to marry Maximilien Robespierre. Meek, plain, and pretentious, Eléonore is the frequent object of mockery in Danton's circle (especially from Camille) who regard her an unsophisticated groupie ineptly chasing Robespierre, who is oblivious to her at first. Max doesn't love her and sleeps with her out of pity, but regards her as a valuable advisor. She is an art student, studying under their mutual friend, Jean-Louis David. Cold and polite to Camille, for whom she secretly harbors intense jealousy. Goes by the name "Cornélia," as she feels it is more classically beautiful.
472	[[/folder]]
473
474	[[folder:Victoire Duplay]]
475	!!Mlle. Victoire Duplay
476
477	Duplay's middle daughter, painfully shy.
478	[[/folder]]
479
480	[[folder:Elisabeth Duplay]]
481	!!Mlle. Elisabeth "Babette" Duplay
482
483	Duplay's youngest daughter, unassuming but pretty. Marries Philippe Lebas, a young left-wing deputy favored by Robespierre.
484	[[/folder]]
485
486	[[folder:Souberbielle]]
487	!!Souberbielle
488
489	Robespierre's doctor, and a juror for the Revolutionary Tribunal.
490	[[/folder]]
491
492	[[folder:Brount]]
493	!!Brount
494
495	Robespierre's dog.
496	[[/folder]]
497
498	!!!The Committee of Public Safety
499
500	[[folder:Antoine Saint-Just]]
501	!!Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just
502	!!!Citizen Saint-Just, Archangel of the Revolution, Angel of Death, Sans-culotte Christ
503	-->''"Happiness is a new idea in Europe."''
504
505	The Committee of Public Safety's notorious "Angel of Death". Saint-Just is unusally young and uncommonly handsome, and becomes exceptionally powerful. He is of the generation that came of age during the Revolution, a fact he hates being reminded of, and is contemptuous of everyone except Max, to whom he is utterly devoted. Robespierre regards him as a promising if somewhat rash youth, and though they are very different, he shares Robespierre's hatred of being laughed at. A fellow disciple of vertu, Saint-Just's "Spartan" ideal emphasizes austerity and logic. He is aloof, unpleasant and a little bit enigmatic, though his motivations betray a deep immaturity which Max trusts him too much to really acknowledge. Camille "knows" they're related but "can't think how" (Saint-Just vehemently denies this).
506	----
507	* IntergenerationalFriendship: A downplayed example with Robespierre, who is more than a decade his senior.
508	* TheSociopath: Though it's strongly implied to be at least partially an act.
509	* YoungAndInCharge: The worst imaginable outcome of this trope. The real Saint-Just died at age 26.
510	[[/folder]]
511
512	[[folder:Billaud-Varennes]]
513	!!Billaud-Varennes
514	-->''"Because I can't compromise."''
515	[[/folder]]
516
517	[[folder:Collot d'Herbois]]
518	!!Collot d'Herbois
519	!!!Citizen Collot
520	->''"Much the worst person in the world."''
521	-->-Camille Desmoulins, on Collot d'Herbois
522
523	[[/folder]]
524
525	[[folder:Antoine Fouquier-Tinville]]
526	!!Antoine Fouquier-Tinville
527	[[/folder]]
528
529	[[folder:Hermann]]
530	!!Hermann of Arras
531	[[/folder]]
532
533	[[folder:Carnot]]
534	!!Lazare Carnot
535	!!!Organizer of Victory
536	[[/folder]]
537
538	!!!The Committee of General Security
539
540	[[folder:Vadier]]
541	!!Vadier
542	!!!The Inquisitor
543	[[/folder]]
544
545	[[folder:Philippe Lebas]]
546	!!Philippe Lebas
547	[[/folder]]
548
549	!!!Others
550
551	[[folder:David]]
552	!!Jacques-Louis David
553
554	A painter.
555	[[/folder]]
556
557	[[folder:Jacqueline Carraut]]
558
559	[[/folder]]
560
561	[[folder: François de Robespierre]]
562
563	[[/folder]]
564
565	[[folder:Aunt Eulalie and Aunt Henriette]]
566
567	[[/folder]]
568
569	[[folder:Grandfather Carraut]]
570	!!Grandfather Carraut
571	[[/folder]]
572
573	[[folder:Charlotte Robespierre]]
574	!!Mlle. Charlotte Robespierre
575	-->''"Do you want them to have a Revolution just to please you?"''
576	Maximilien's unmarried sister. A haughty, difficult, slightly unstable woman. In their early years, she served as something of a surrogate maternal figure to him, despite being younger. She behaves possessively towards Max, a tendency which has roots in their mutually-fraught childhood. For this reason, she resents the Duplays (especially Eléonore) which places her in an unlikely alliance with Camille. Max tolerates a lot of controlling behavior from her throughout his life, however it is only when she moves to Paris while he is already living at the rue Honoré that their relationship starts to become very strained.
577	----
578	* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: A lot of her issues stem from the deep-seated anxiety that Max loved their dead sister Henriette more, and secretly wishes she had been the one to die.
579	[[/folder]]
580
581	[[folder:Augustin Robespierre]]
582	!!Augustin Robespierre
583	-->''"I do feel sorry for my brother. Things are never what they seem to be with him."''
584	Maximilien Robespierre's laid-back, slightly dim younger brother, a womanizer. Unlike Max, he is mostly contented and not a very deep thinker. He is considered a mild embarrassment to his family and Max generally wishes he was more serious. Most of what we know about the de Robespierre family we learn from Augustin, who isn't burdened by the memories in the way his brother is. Runs for election in '92 and wins, which causes Max to fret that he is benefitting from nepotism.
585	----
586	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Maximilien's Responsible.
587	* LiteralMinded:
588	-->'''Augustin''': It's strange to think he could be sitting in a café in Vienna at this very moment, reading about Max in the papers.
589	-->'''Duplay''': If he's anywhere in the civilized world and he can read, I'm sure he has.
590	-->'''Augustin''': Oh, he can read.
591	[[/folder]]
592
593	[[folder:Henriette Robespierre]]
594	!!Mlle. Henriette de Robespierre
595	Maximilien's youngest sister, who died of a hemorrhage at age nineteen.
596	[[/folder]]
597
598	!Politicians called "Brissotins" or "Girondins"
599
600	->''"They just aren't really our sort of people."''
601	-->-Danton, on the Gironde
602
603	[[folder:Brissot]]
604	!!Jean-Pierre Brissot
605	[[/folder]]
606
607	[[folder:Verignaud]]
608	!!Pierre Verignaud
609	-->''"I am not a Brissotin."''
610
611	Verignaud is a long-suffering, set-in-his-ways, middle-aged diplomat. He is an distinguished orator, and the only member of the Gironde that Danton respects, as he recognizes they are very alike. They make several short-term alliances, with varying degrees of transparency within their respective factions.
612	----
613	* SurroundedByIdiots
614	* WorthyOpponent: To Danton.
615	-->'''Camille''': ''(on Verignaud)'' Mark that. That is the spark of self-regard.
616	-->'''Danton''': Oh, but I like seeing a man do what he is good at.
617	[[/folder]]
618
619	[[folder:Pétion]]
620	!!Jérôme Pétion
621	[[/folder]]
622
623	[[folder:Jean-Marie Roland]]
624	!!Jean-Marie Roland, Minister of the Interior
625	!!!The Virtuous Roland
626
627	Manon's husband. A soft moderate, known as "The Virtuous Roland". He is elderly, and the Dantonists propagandize him as a senile, emasculated mediocrity who demurs to the every whim of his uppity wife.
628	----
629	* ButtMonkey
630	* DrivenToSuicide: Quietly slits his wrists at his country home when he learns Manon has been executed.
631	[[/folder]]
632
633	[[folder:Manon Roland]]
634	!!Mme. Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Roland
635	!!!Our Roman Lady, Madame Roland, Roland's wife, The Beauteous Manon, Queen Coco
636	-->''"There shall be no gaming-houses in the Republic. No, it shall not be permitted."''
637
638	A renowned author, and the young [[TrophyWife Trophy Wife]] of Jean-Marie Roland, with whom she has one child, a daughter. Born in Paris, Manon has spent most of her life in Lyon, carrying on a correspondence with Brissot, who calls her his "Roman Lady". Manon returns to Paris for her husband's political career in '89, when she forms a ''salon'' with the other future members of the Gironde (plus Robespierre). Good-looking but haughty and obnoxiously self-righteous, with an iron will. Falls in love with young Deputy Buzot and pursues a highly publicized emotional affair with him, though she refuses to be sexually unfaithful to her husband. The real voice of the Brissotin faction in the press, Manon is both a committed anti-monarchist and an open critic of Danton, whom she simultaneously fears and eroticizes.
639	----
640	* FemaleMisogynist
641	* LustObject: She's regarded as a beauty, and Brissot and Pétion are both pretty blatantly attracted to her.
642	* NeverLiveItDown: Once published an article in Camille's journal, which is deeply embarrassing to her. He never lets her forget it.
643	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Boy, is she ever! Schmoozes apathetic Robespierre and antagonizes Danton, though the latter is significantly more likely to spare her (being both more sympathetic to her views and ambivalent about killing women).
644	[[/folder]]
645
646	[[folder:Louvet]]
647	!!Jean-Baptiste Louvet
648	-->''"I accuse you."''
649
650	Another Brissotin deputy, widely known and mocked for having previously authored a pornographic novel, Faublas. In October 1792, Louvet denounces Robespierre before the Convention; this backfires on him largely thanks to Danton and Marat, and Robespierre's sway in the Convention is entrenched further.
651	[[/folder]]
652
653	[[folder:Buzot]]
654	!!François-Léonard Buzot
655	[[/folder]]
656
657	[[folder:Barbaroux]]
658	!!CharlesBarbaroux
659	[[/folder]]
660
661	[[folder:Valazé]]
662	!!Valazé
663	----
664	* BloodOnTheDebateFloor: Stabs himself in the middle of his trial.
665	[[/folder]]
666
667	[[folder:Condorcet]]
668	!!The Marquis de Condorcet
669	[[/folder]]
670
671	!The Orléanists
672
673	[[folder:Philippe Orléans]]
674	!!Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Prince of the Blood
675	!!!The Duke, Good Duke Philippe, Philippe Égalité, Citizen Égalité
676	-->''"Oh God. Laclos is going to kill me."''
677	[[/folder]]
678
679	[[folder:Félicité de Genlis]]
680	!!Félicité de Genlis
681	[[/folder]]
682
683	[[folder:Agnès de Buffon]]
684	!!Agnès de Buffon
685	[[/folder]]
686
687	[[folder:Grace Elliot]]
688	!!Grace Elliot
689
690	The Duke's Scottish mistress, and later Danton's. A spy for the British Foreign Office.
691	[[/folder]]
692
693	%%[[folder:Laclos]]
694	%%!!Pierre Cholerdos de Laclos
695	%%[[/folder]]
696
697	%%!The Hébertists
698
699	%%[[folder:René Hébert]]
700	%%!!René Hébert
701	%%!!!Le Père Duchesne, The Ghost of Marat
702	%%[[/folder]]
703
704	%%[[folder:Jacques Roux]]
705	%%!!Jacques Roux
706	%%[[/folder]]
707
708	%%!The Old National Assembly
709
710	%%[[folder:The Marquis de La Fayette]]
711	%%!!Honoré Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert de Mottié, the Marquis de La Fayette
712	%%!!!de Mottié, Washington pot-au-feu
713	%%-->''"Sometimes I wish I were not such an honorable gentleman."''
714
715	%%The celebrated general, already the decorated hero of both France and America when this story starts to heat up in earnest. He is the same age as Danton, and the unknowing object of his ambitious resentment when Danton is still a disaffected legal clerk. Lafayette is also the commander of the National Guard. Much like Necker, he is a intelligent and well-meaning man whose level-headed and potentially life-saving advice is steadfastly ignored by his liege lords and ladies, and indeed most of Lafayette's blunders are caused by the obstinacy of the First Estate in general and the Royal family in specific. Unlike Necker, however, Lafayette sticks around long enough to see himself named a traitor to the Republic.
716	%%[[/folder]]
717
718	%%[[folder:The Comte de Mirabeau]]
719	%%!!Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, the Comte de Mirabeau
720	%%-->''"Liberty's a bitch who likes to get fucked on a mattress of corpses."''
721
722	%%A bankrupt renegade noble sitting for the Commons, or the Third Estate. The face of the Revolution in the years leading up to '89, and the patriarch of the National Assembly. With the Abbé Sieyѐs, he is the progenitor of the early Revolutionary movement. In the beginning of that year, Camille allows himself to be bought by Mirabeau, who finances and promotes Camille's first few pamphlets and later helps him set up a newspaper. In exchange, Camille endorses his policies in the press. Camille's attitude towards him is conflicted and vaguely masochistic, and foreshadows his later relationship with Danton. In the spring of 1790 he falls ill suddenly and dies in a coma.
723	%%----
724	%%* ShadowArchetype: To Danton.
725	%%[[/folder]]
726
727	%%[[folder:Bailly]]
728	%%!!Jean-Sylvain Bailly
729
730	%%An astronomer and Mayor of Paris during the summer of '89.
731	%%[[/folder]]
732
733	%%[[folder:Barnave]]
734	%%!!Antoine Barnave
735	%%!!!Tiger
736	%%[[/folder]]
737
738	%%!The Dutch East India Company Conspirators
739
740	%%[[folder:Chabot]]
741	%%!!Deputy Chabot
742
743	%%A not-too-bright sansculotte deputy and ex-Capuchin friar. Fabre successfully scapegoats him for conspiracy and speculation at the time when he is still believed to have nothing to do with it, but it doesn't last. According to Robespierre, Chabot became enmeshed in the foreign conspiracy when he married the "sister" of con men Emmanuel and Junius Frei, a wealthy Prussian Jew. After being imprisoned in the Luxembourg, Chabot tries to poison himself but falls into a coma instead.
744	%%[[/folder]]
745
746	%%[[folder:Julien]]
747	%%!!Deputy Julien
748	%%[[/folder]]
749
750	%%[[folder:"The Brothers Frei"]]
751	%%!!Emmanuel Dobruska and Siegmund Gotleb, a.k.a. "Emmanuel and Junius Frei"
752	%%[[/folder]]
753
754	!Assorted Characters
755
756	!!!The Court
757
758	%%[[folder:Louis XVI]]
759	%%!!King Louis XVI of France
760	%%!!!Louis Capet, Citizen Capet
761	%%-->''"You're lucky. I wish I could resign."''
762
763	%%The last hereditary monarch in France. Crowned at age sixteen, executed at age thirty-nine. Among the revolutionaries, he is known as 'Louis Capet'.
764	%%[[/folder]]
765
766	[[folder:Marie-Antoinette]]
767	!!Queen Marie-Antoinette of France
768	!!!Madame Deficit, Madame Veto, Madame Capet, The Capet woman, The Capet whore, The King's wife
769	-->''"We must show character."''
770
771	The famous profligate queen. Marie-Antoinette in this version is portrayed mainly through the lens of her antagonism with Lafayette, the two of whom are the competing strategists behind Versailles' response to the insurrection (and later the Constitution). Among the revolutionaries, she is only ever referred to as "Capet's wife" or "the Capet woman".
772	----
773	* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Camille has this reaction to seeing her at her trial.
774	%%* FaceDeathWithDignity
775	%%* MaliciousSlander
776	%%* TooDumbToLive
777	* UngratefulBitch: To Lafayette, whom she despises despite the fact that he has saved her life several times and is one of the few important people who gives a damn about her.
778	[[/folder]]
779
780	%%!!!At the Île Saint-Louis
781
782	%%[[folder: Maître Vinot]]
783	%%-->''"Have comprehensible ambitions, my boy. Keep us comfortable."''
784
785	%%A prosperous, pugnacious Parisian lawyer in whose chambers Georges-Jacques Danton is a pupil. Georges-Jacques finds him ridiculous, and kowtowing to Vinot chafes his pride (the feeling is not mutual).
786	%%[[/folder]]
787
788	%%[[folder:Maître Perrin]]
789
790	%%[[/folder]]
791
792	%%!!!At the Louis-le-Grand
793
794	%%[[folder:Father Poignard]]
795
796	%%[[/folder]]
797
798	%%[[folder:Father Proyart]]
799
800	%%[[/folder]]
801
802	%%[[folder:Father Hérivaux]]
803
804	%%[[/folder]]
805
806	%%!!!Others
807
808	%%[[folder:Citizen de Sade]]
809	%%-->''"They're murdering the prisoners in the Bastille!"''
810
811	%%Formerly the Marquis de Sade. Pays a visit to Camille in '94, after which he is promptly arrested (again). However, he survives the Terror.
812	%%[[/folder]]
813
814	%%[[folder:Henri Sanson]]
815
816	%%The public executioner. Inherited his vocation from his father, also named Henri Sanson, who once sued Camille Desmoulins for libel in 1788.

Context Characters / APlaceOfGreaterSafety