COUTHON, CARNOT & BILLAUD VARENNE: Georges Couthon (1755-1794) French Politician and Lawyer. President of the ...

COUTHON, CARNOT & BILLAUD VARENNE: Georges Couthon (1755-1794) French Politician and Lawyer. President of the National Convention 1793-94. A proficient speaker who often exploited his condition as a paraplegic in order to gain the Assembly`s approval of his proposals. A close associate to Robespierre and Saint-Just in the Committee of Public Safety. Couthon, responsible of the huge increase of executions, was himself guillotined alongside Robespierre; Lazare Carnot (1753-1823) French Physicist and politician. Known as the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary; Jacques-Nicolas Billaud Varenne (1756-1819) French Revolutionary, often considered a key architect of the period known as The Reign of Terror. Nicknamed ''Le Tigre'' (''The Tiger''). Billaud-Varenne was member of the Committee of Public Safety. He was later sentenced to deportation to French Guiana after is involvement in the 12th Germinal insurrection (1st April 1795). A good multiple D.S. by Couthon, Carnot and Billaud Varenne as members of the Committee of Public safety, of the National Convention, two pages, folio, Paris, 8th January 1794, in French. The partially printed document bears the to the heading a vignette of the Committee of Public Safety, and states that having informed `..that among the citizens arrested as a result of the disturbances at Coulommiers, there is a large number of workers, craftsmen, of citizens who are strayed or were cheated by several conspirators and contra-revolutionaries..´ The Committee of Public safety orders that Mr. Maure, representative of the people, will travel to Coulommiers with full capacity to deal with this matter. Small overall minor age wear, with small creasing to edges. G Nicolas Maure (1743-1795) Member of the Convention. He was guillotined as a former supporter of Robespierre. The peasants uprising of November-December 1793, known as the ''Petite Vendée Briarde'' took place in Brie and nearby, including Colummiers, and was mainly caused because of the anti-religious measures adopted by the Convention, closing churches and forbidding priests to teach. The uprising was repressed with hundreds of arrests and some guillotined.