François-Noël Babeuf
1760 – 1797
French

Revolutionary. He was a Jacobin during the French Revolution, but favored an even more radical egalitarian and communist program. When his plot to seize power was uncovered, he was guillotined.

Contemporaries
1717–1783Jean d'Alembert
1694–1778Voltaire
1727–1781Anne-Robert-Jacquees Turgot
1767–1820Jean Tallien
1783–1842Stendhal
1760–1825Claude Saint-Simon
1712–1778Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1758–1794Maximilien Robespierre
1777–1849Julie Récamier
1697–1763l'Abbé Prévost
1721–1764Jeanne Pompadour
1769–1821Napoleon I
1743–1793Jean Marat
1782–1854Felicité Lamennais
1790–1869Alphonse Lamartine
1715–1771Claude-Adrien Helvétius
1772–1837Charles Fourier
1713–1784Denis Diderot
1759–1794Georges Danton
1792–1867Victor Cousin
1768–1793Charlotte Corday
1715–1780Étienne Condillac
1743–1794Marie Condorcet
1768–1848François Chateaubriand
1756–1794Jean Baptiste Carrier
1698–1762Jean Calas
1788–1856Étienne Cabet
1707–1788Georges-Louis Buffon
1754–1793Jacques Pierre Brissot
1771–1802Xavier Bichat
1794–1880Sabin Berthelot