Claim: Before being associated with Jacques Necker and Étienne Dumont, Étienne Clavière, a native of Geneva, became one of the democratic leaders of the Geneva Revolution of 1792, but went into exile after its failure.
Evidence: Clavière associated with personalities from Neuchâtel and Geneva, among them Jean-Paul Marat and Étienne Dumont. Their plans for a new Geneva in Ireland—which the government of William Pitt the Younger favoured—were given up when Jacques Necker came to power in France, and Clavière, with most of his comrades, settled in Paris. Étienne Clavière (29 January 1735 – 8 December 1793) was a Genevan-born French financier and politician of the French Revolution. A native of Geneva, Clavière became one of the democratic leaders of the Geneva Revolution of 1782.