bunniesandbeheadings:Philippe Nicolas Marie de Pâris assassinated the Jacobin deputy Louis-Michel Le
bunniesandbeheadings:Philippe Nicolas Marie de Pâris assassinated the Jacobin deputy Louis-Michel Le Peletier, ci-devant marquis de Saint-Fargeau, who had voted for the death of the king, on 20 January 1793. The Girondins had been long asserting that the Jacobin deputies were assassins themselves. Saint-André, upon learning of Le Peletier’s death, pointed out the flaw in the charge: It is these ‘assassins’ who are being murdered! Jacques-Louis David painted a portrait honoring the fallen deputy, as he would for Marat a year later, but it has since been destroyed. It is now known only through a drawn copy by one of David’s students, which is pictured above.Le Peletier left behind an eleven year old daughter. -- source link
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