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<p> A violent revolutionary, one of a triumvirate with Robespierre and St. Just, who would expel every one from the Jacobin Club who could not give evidence of having done something to merit hanging, should a counter-revolution arrive; was paralysed in his limbs from having had to spend a night "sunk to the middle in a cold peat bog" to escape detection as a seducer; trapped for the guillotine; tried to make away with himself under a table, but could not (1756-1794). </p> | Georges Couthon <ref name="term_71372" /> | ||
==References == | <p> A violent revolutionary, one of a triumvirate with Robespierre and St. Just, who would expel every one from the Jacobin [[Club]] who could not give evidence of having done something to merit hanging, should a counter-revolution arrive; was paralysed in his limbs from having had to spend a night "sunk to the middle in a cold peat bog" to escape detection as a seducer; trapped for the guillotine; tried to make away with himself under a table, but could not (1756-1794). </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_71372"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/couthon,+georges Georges Couthon from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_71372"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/couthon,+georges Georges Couthon from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:10, 15 October 2021
Georges Couthon [1]
A violent revolutionary, one of a triumvirate with Robespierre and St. Just, who would expel every one from the Jacobin Club who could not give evidence of having done something to merit hanging, should a counter-revolution arrive; was paralysed in his limbs from having had to spend a night "sunk to the middle in a cold peat bog" to escape detection as a seducer; trapped for the guillotine; tried to make away with himself under a table, but could not (1756-1794).
