NAME ONLY THREE PERSONALITIES WHO PLAYED MORE ROLE IN FRENCH REVOLUTION?
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Explanation:
1. Mirabeau:
It is desirable to refer to the important personalities of the French Revolution before the rise of Napoleon, and the first in the list is the name of Mirabeau.
The son of a cruel father, he died at the age of 42 after many ups and downs in his life. He was a man of “instincts and insights”.
He had “a brain and heart of fire”. He was eccentric, violent, ambitious, unscrupulous and cynical. He was ugly, but it is stated that his “very ugliness was a power.” He fought duels. His father sent him to prison. He was full of vices and suffered from diseases.
However, he was a practical, clear-headed and far-sighted statesman. He was not a theorist. He was the greatest man of the French Revolution. He has been called the “adventurer of genius in a dissolving society”. It was he who shook old France to its basis and as if with a single hand held it toppling there, still un-fallen.
It is stated that when he died in 1791, the funeral procession was three leagues long and the representatives of the king and the prominent members of Jacobin club followed his procession. There was mourning for three days in Paris. That gives an idea of his personality.
Mirabeau had travelled a lot in his youth and thereby acquired a lot of experience. Carlyle refers to this fact in these words: “In these strange wayfaring’s, what has he not seen and tried? From drill sergeants to Prime Minister, to foreign and domestic booksellers, all manners of men he has seen.” Mirabeau visited England and was impressed by the working of the parliamentary system of that country by which the king and responsible ministers worked in co-operation.
2. Marat (1742-1793):
If Marat had not taken interest in politics, he might have been known in history as a scientist and a man of letters. He was a physician and he was so skillful in his profession that he had received an honorary degree from St. Andrews University in Scotland. For a time, he was in the service of the Count of Artois.
3. Danton (1759-94):
Danton was the son of a farmer. He studied law and became a lawyer. Before the outbreak of the French Revolution, he acquired reputation as a brilliant young lawyer and a man of liberal tastes. He was fond of books and happy in his domestic life. He possessed a powerful physique and a stentorian voice. He was a skillful debater and a convincing orator. Unlike Mirabeau, he himself remained calm and self-possessed while his audiences were carried away by the enthusiasm. Like Mirabeau, he was interested in the welfare of the class below him. What the nobleman Mirabeau was to the bourgeoisie, the bourgeois Danton was to the Parisian proletariat.