Committee of Public Safety

The Committee of Public Safety (French: comité de salut public), set up by the National Convention on April 6, 1793, formed the de facto executive government of France during the Reign of Terror (1793 - 1794) of the French Revolution.

The most prominent members of the committee

• Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac - Earlier a Girondist, later a Bonapartist, drew up the 9 Thermidor report outlawing Robespierre.
• Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, an Hebertist
• Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès was a member only after 9 Thermidor
• Pierre Joseph Cambon
• Lazare Carnot - physicist, the "Organizer of Victory"
• Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois, an Hebertist
• Georges Couthon
• Georges Danton
• Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles
• Robert Lindet
• Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, also mayor of Paris
• Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois (a.k.a. Prieur de la Côte-d'Or)
• Pierre Louis Prieur (a.k.a. Prieur de la Marne)
• Maximilien Robespierre, a Montagnard
• Jean Bon Saint-André
• Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, a Montagnard
• Jean Lambert Tallien