Composition
The Committee was initially composed of nine members, all selected by the National Convention for one month at a time, without period limits. Its first members, instated on April 6, 1793, were as follows, in order of election.
- Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, representative of Hautes-Pyrénées (imprisoned, escaped guillotine to live in hiding)
- Jean-François Delmas, representative of Haute-Garonne
- Jean-Jacques Bréard, representative of Charente-Inférieure
- Pierre-Joseph Cambon, representative of Hérault (forced to live in hiding)
- Georges Danton, representative of Paris proper (guillotined)
- Jean-Antoine Debry, representative of Aisne, later replaced by Robert Lindet, representative of Eure upon resignation
- Louis-Bernard Guyton-Morveau, representative of Côte d'Or
- Jean-Baptiste Treilhard, representative of Seine-at-Oise
- Jean-François Delacroix, representative of Eure-at-Loir (guillotined)
After Robespierre's election to the Committee on July 27, 1793, the Committee increased its membership to twelve. The list below represents the Committee's membership from the addition of Collot d'Herbois and Billaud-Varenne in September 1793 through the arrest of Hérault de Séchelles in March 1794.
- Maximilien de Robespierre, representative of Paris (guillotined)
- Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, representative of Hautes-Pyrénées (imprisoned)
- Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet, representative of Eure (denounced and tried)
- André Jeanbon Saint André, representative of Lot (arrested but released)
- Georges Couthon, representative of Puy-at-Dôme (guillotined)
- Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, representative of Seine-at-Oise (guillotined)
- Pierre-Louis Prieur (called Prieur de la Marne), representative of Marne
- Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, representative of Aisne (guillotined)
- Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, representative of Pas-de-Calais
- Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois (former Prior of Côte-d’Or), representative of Côte-d'Or
- Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, representative of Paris (arrested and exiled)
- Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, representative of Paris (arrested and deported)
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