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Francois-Noel Babeuf

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Francois-Noel Babeuf (born 1760 November 4 in St. Quentin, France) was a French revolutionary, Communist leader in the French Revolution, member of the Conspiracy of Equals, until betrayed to the Directory, when he was captured and executed.

Opposed to the middle-class degeneration of the revolution. The Conspiracy of Equals included Buonarroti, Sylvain Maréchal, Jacques Roux, and Jean Varlet, among others. Babeuf and 30 others were executed, but Varlet escaped and published "Explosion," one of the first anarchist proclamations, declaring "Government and revolution are incompatible."

Francois-Noel Babeuf was a Daily Bleed Saint in 1997.

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