JEAN NICOLAS BILLAUD-VARENNES

JEAN NICOLAS BILLAUD-VARENNES (1756-1819), "a grim, resolute, unrepentant" member of the Jacobin Club; egged on the mob during the September massacres in the name of liberty; was president of the Convention; assisted at the fall of Robespierre, but could not avert his own; was deported to Surinam, and content to die there rather than return to France, which Bonaparte made him free to do; died at Port-au-Prince.