Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
French writer, orator and statesman (1749-1791)
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The revolutionary orator who was hailed as a father of the French Revolution, buried in the Panthéon as a national hero, then ripped out two years later when his secret payments from Louis XVI came to light during the king's trial.
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Born into nobility in 1749, Mirabeau arrived at the Revolution with a reputation already in tatters from years of personal scandals. His gift was oratory, and after his election to the Estates-General in 1789 it carried him to the top of the new National Assembly, where he pushed for constitutional monarchy on the British model while holding a leading role in the Jacobin Club. When he died of pericarditis in 1791, the revolutionaries gave him a hero's burial — the first body laid in the Panthéon. The 1792 trial of Louis XVI shattered the myth: Mirabeau had been taking the king's money in secre…
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