Search the French Revolution condemned to death database for ancestors, historical figures, victims and villains, all information indexed from Louis M. Prudhomme’s books (1796). ‘Dictionnaire des individus envoyés à la mort judiciairement: révolutionnairement et contre-révolution, pendand la révolution France ‘ Volumes I and II, Also contains those who were condemned to a prison sentence or were exiled
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Names Beginning with:
A, B, E, F, I, J, K, N, O, Q, U, W, Z
- Conspiration du Camp de Grenelle près Paris
Names Beginning with:
C, D, G, H, L, M, V, S
This is what you may find
What you need to know
- Last Name
- First Name
- Age
- Profession & Position
- Military
- Place of Birth (town & department)
- Place of Residence (town & department)
- Charges against the Accused
- Date of Trial & Execution
- Town or Department of Trial & Execution
- Type of Court
- This is a MASSIVE ONGOING PROJECT (check back regularly)
- All the data is in French (you’ll need an online translator)
- There will be mistakes of spelling, location of French cities in departments (ex: Lyon in department of Seine)
- The database is from 1792-1796
- Not all of the condemned were executed by guillotine
- Blanks fields means there was no recorded information
- ‘Natif’ doesn’t necessarily mean a person was born in that town (ex: natif de Nismes, but né Lyon, Rhône)
- Last names (nom) can have slight spelling variations. (Ex: Clavier/Claviere/Clavierre)
updated: 23 Sept 2023
Search The Database
- Enter name to search
- Click on a Name in Results Page
- Form Page will pop-up
- All recorded information will be displayed
- Unsure of Spelling? Enter at least the first 3 letters of the name
- Looking for Marie Antoinette? Enter ‘Antoinette’ in the last name field
Source and Citations: Prudhomme, L. M. (1796). Dictionnaire des individus envoyés à la mort judiciairement: révolutionnairement et contre-révolution, pendant la révolution France Tome Premier (Volumne I ) & Tome II (volumne II )Google Books