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Couthon, Georges

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A violent revolutionary, one of a triumvirate with Robespierre and St. Just, who would expel every one from the Jacobin Club who could not give evidence of having done something to merit hanging, should a counter-revolution arrive; was paralysed in his limbs from having had to spend a night "sunk to the middle in a cold peat bog" to escape detection as a seducer; trapped for the guillotine; tried to make away with himself under a table, but could not (1756-1794).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Couthon, Georges'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/couthon-georges.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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