COLLOT D'HERBOIS

COLLOT D'HERBOIS, JEAN MARIE (1750-1790), a violent French Revolutionary, originally a tragic actor, once hissed off the Lyons stage, "tearing a passion to rags"; had his revenge by a wholesale butchery there; marched 209 men across the Rhône to be shot; by-and-by was banished beyond seas to Cayenne, and soon died there.