Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau


00:01:05 1 Family history
00:02:13 2 Early life
00:07:44 3 Before the French Revolution
00:14:40 4 The French Revolution
00:14:49 4.1 1789
00:21:41 4.2 Jacobin Club
00:25:06 4.3 1790–91
00:29:35 4.3.1 Foreign affairs
00:30:47 5 Death
00:33:19 6 Collaborators
00:34:56 7 In popular culture



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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (9 March 1749 – 2 April 1791) was a leader of the early stages of the French Revolution. A noble, he was involved in numerous scandals before the start of the Revolution in 1789 that had left his reputation in ruins. Nonetheless, he rose to the top of the French political hierarchy in the years 1789–1791 and acquired the reputation of a voice of the people. A successful orator, he was the leader of the moderate position among revolutionaries by favoring a constitutional monarchy built on the model of Great Britain. When he died (of natural causes) he was a great national hero, even though support for his moderate position was slipping away.  The later discovery that he was in the pay of King Louis XVI and the Austrian enemies of France beginning in 1790 caused his posthumous disgrace. Historians are deeply split on whether he was a great leader who almost saved the nation from the Terror, a venal demagogue lacking political or moral values, or a traitor in the pay of the enemy.