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Saint-Just

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Saint-Just  (s-zhst, -zhüst), Louis Antoine Léon de 1767-1794.
French revolutionary. Active during the Reign of Terror, he was tried and executed with his colleague Robespierre in 1794.
Saint-Just (French) [sɛ̃ʒyst]
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(Biographies / Saint-Just, Louis Antoine Léon de (1767-1794) M, French, POLITICS: Revolutionary, POLITICS: orator) Louis Antoine Léon de (lwi ɑ̃twan leɔ̃ də). 1767-94, French Revolutionary leader and orator. A member of the Committee of Public Safety (1793-94), he was guillotined with Robespierre


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Tall, lean, lanky, and solemn in appearance, like a man who expects to be called some day to lay down his life for a cause, he lived on a page of Volney, studied Saint-Just, and employed himself on a vindication of Robespierre, whom he regarded as the successor of Jesus Christ.
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