ANACHARSIS CLOOTS

Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots. He wrote of the French Revolution as the first step that would trigger a world-wide revolution producing a “Universal Republic” which would be a political paradise. He was very active helping the revolutionists in the French Revolution. He have them money and used his writing and political skills to assist in many ways. Ironically, he got caught up in the paranoid insanity into which the French Revolution evolved, and he was accused by Maximilien Robespierre and guillotined at the age of 39.

Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots. He wrote of the French Revolution as the first step that would trigger a world-wide revolution producing a “Universal Republic” which would be a political paradise. He was very active helping the revolutionists in the French Revolution. He have them money and used his writing and political skills to assist in many ways. Ironically, he got caught up in the paranoid insanity into which the French Revolution evolved, and he was accused by Maximilien Robespierre and guillotined at the age of 39.