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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.


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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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