“l’Archange de la Terreur”

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“l’Archange de la Terreur” is the famous epithet of Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, a radical Jacobin leader and close ally of Robespierre during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf epithet
historical nickname
appliedIn French-language historiography
discussions of revolutionary violence
appliedTo Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
associatedWithEvent Reign of Terror
associatedWithIdeology radical Jacobinism
associatedWithPeriod French Revolution
associatedWithPerson Maximilien Robespierre
associatedWithPoliticalMovement Jacobin Club
surface form: Jacobin movement
associatedWithRole member of the Committee of Public Safety
revolutionary leader
connotation inflexible revolutionary virtue
terror
countryOfContext France
era late 18th century
hasComponent “Archange”
“Terreur”
historicalContext radical phase of the French Revolution
language French
linkedToEvent political purges during the Reign of Terror
linkedToInstitution Committee of Public Safety
meaning the Archangel of Terror
refersTo Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
refersToCharacteristic austere and uncompromising political stance
zealous support for the Terror
subjectOf biographies of Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
historical studies of the Reign of Terror
usedBy later historians
political commentators on the French Revolution

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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just describedAs “l’Archange de la Terreur”