Jean-Marie Hérault de Séchelles
'Look, I can't help my birth. I try to atone for it.'
Hérault is “a judge … a man seriously aristocratic, seriously rich” who takes an interest in revolutionary politics and becomes a close friend and ally to Georges-Jacques Danton. He sits on the National Convention and becomes part of the Mountain faction and a member of the Reign of Terror’s Committee of Public Safety.
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