Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Quotes


There is not a single human being that I trust!


Context

This was the group that decided who was to be executed in the Reign of Terror


Citations

Louis Saint-Just, 1767-1794, French Revolutionary Leader, Committee of Public Safety Rose of Versailles

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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
  • Born: August 25, 1767
  • Died: July 28, 1794
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Revolutionary, Philosopher

Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just was a Jacobin leader during the French Revolution. He was a close friend of Maximilien Robespierre and served as his most trusted ally during the period of Jacobin rule (1793–94) in the French First Republic. Saint-Just worked as a legislator and a military commissar, but he achieved a lasting reputation as the face of the Reign of Terror. He publicly delivered the condemnatory reports that emanated from Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety and defended the use of violence against opponents of the government. He supervised the arrests of some of the most famous figures of the Revolution and saw many of them off to the guillotine. For his unyielding severity, later writers dubbed him the "Angel of Death".