Barbaroux

Charles Barbaroux (1767-1794) was a politician from southern France and a figure of the French Revolution. Initially a Jacobin and editor-in-chief of the influential patriotic newspaper L’Observateur Marseillais, he later aligned himself with the Girondins and criticized Robespierre within the Committee of Public Safety, of which he was a member and whose dissolution he demanded. Declared an enemy of the Republic, he was arrested but managed to escape. After fleeing to Normandy, Brittany, and Medoc, he was captured, although wounded following a suicide attempt, which may be depicted in our engraving.
This victim of the Reign of Terror was executed in Bordeaux.