biography
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Barnave, Antoine (Pierre Joseph Marie)
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pronunciation:
[bah(r)nahv]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1761–93)
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| biography:
| French revolutionary, born in Grenoble, E France. He studied law, and became a member of the new National Assembly (1789), where he established a reputation as an orator, and helped to carry through the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. He brought back the royal family from their abortive flight to Varennes (1791), but subsequently developed royalist sympathies, advocated a constitutional monarchy, and was guillotined. |
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