The comte de Mirabeau is one of the characters in the most colorful of the French Revolution. Libertine and debauchee, it is first imprisoned in 1774 in chateau d’if for desertion. And then his flight abroad with a married woman earned him a death sentence. Locked up in the castle of Vincennes, from 1777 to 1780, he meets the marquis de Sade, with which he fights almost. He became a writer and then comes the Revolution. He was elected deputy of the third state. Nicknamed ” the speaker of the people “, he is adored by all. It corédige the Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen. Only…
April 2, 1791. The day when Mirabeau expires in his bed
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