What was the role of great personalities in French Revolution?

Answer 1

Louis XVI was the king that was beheaded. Marie Antoinette was the queen who said, "Let them eat cake." She was also beheaded. Marquis de Lafayette was in charge of the National Guard. Jacques Necker was the finance minister. Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a primary leader of the Revolution. Under Robespierre over 18,000 were put to death. Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès was a right wing leader proposing a reform similar to the British Parliament. Georges Jacques Danton was an orator who proposed death of the King, only to later be guillotined himself. Napoleon Bonaparte was in charge of defending the Convention in the Tuileries Palace.