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FRENCH SCHOOL, mid-nineteenth century Portrait of Louis Antoine de Saint Just (Decize 1767-Paris 1794) Oval canvas Louis XVI period frame, gilded (small accidents) Height : 53,5 cm Width: 42 cm Old restorations Old exhibition labels. Elected deputy to the Convention at the age of 25 (September 1792), Louis Antoine de Saint Just distinguished himself by his eloquence and the rigidity of his principles. He called for the king's execution without trial, and voted for immediate death. He joined the Comité de salut public on May 30, 1793, and, like Robespierre, advocated a centralizing, egalitarian and virtuous Republic. As a representative on a mission, he turned around the situation of the Army of the Rhine with implacable energy (late 1793), and contributed to the Fleurus victory (June 26, 1794). Archangel of the Terror, he denounced the Girondin federalists (July 1793), then the Hebertist and Dantonist factions (March-April 1794), and pushed through the Ventôse decrees (February-March 1794) confiscating the property of the Republic's enemies for distribution to poor patriots. Drawn in by the fall of Robespierre, he was executed on Thermidor 10 (July 28, 1794).
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FRENCH SCHOOL, mid-nineteenth century Portrait of Louis Antoine de Saint Just (Decize 1767-Paris 1794) Oval canvas Louis XVI period frame, gilded (small accidents) Height : 53,5 cm Width: 42 cm Old restorations Old exhibition labels. Elected deputy to the Convention at the age of 25 (September 1792), Louis Antoine de Saint Just distinguished himself by his eloquence and the rigidity of his principles. He called for the king's execution without trial, and voted for immediate death. He joined the Comité de salut public on May 30, 1793, and, like Robespierre, advocated a centralizing, egalitarian and virtuous Republic. As a representative on a mission, he turned around the situation of the Army of the Rhine with implacable energy (late 1793), and contributed to the Fleurus victory (June 26, 1794). Archangel of the Terror, he denounced the Girondin federalists (July 1793), then the Hebertist and Dantonist factions (March-April 1794), and pushed through the Ventôse decrees (February-March 1794) confiscating the property of the Republic's enemies for distribution to poor patriots. Drawn in by the fall of Robespierre, he was executed on Thermidor 10 (July 28, 1794).
