biography
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Babeuf, François-Noël
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originally Gracchus Babeuf
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pronunciation:
[baboef]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1760–97)
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| biography:
| Political agitator in revolutionary France, born in St Quentin, N France. During the Revolution, he helped organize a conspiracy aiming to destroy the Directory (1796) and establish an extreme democratic and communistic system. When this was discovered, he was guillotined. |
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