Jean Baptiste Carrier
1756 – 1794
French

Violent revolutionary. A follower of Robespierre during the French Revolution, he killed thousands of prisoners but was eventually killed himself.

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
1712–1759Louis Montcalm
1743–1793Jean Marat
1782–1854Felicité Lamennais
1790–1869Alphonse Lamartine
1757–1834Marie-Joseph Lafayette
1715–1771Claude-Adrien Helvétius
1772–1837Charles Fourier
1657–1757Bernard Fontenelle
1713–1784Denis Diderot
1759–1794Georges Danton
1792–1867Victor Cousin
1768–1793Charlotte Corday
1715–1780Étienne Condillac
1743–1794Marie Condorcet
1768–1848François Chateaubriand
1698–1762Jean Calas
1788–1856Étienne Cabet
1707–1788Georges-Louis Buffon
1754–1793Jacques Pierre Brissot
1771–1802Xavier Bichat
1794–1880Sabin Berthelot
1760–1797François-Noël Babeuf