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Jean Nicolas Billaud-Varenne[zhAk nEkOlA´ bEyO´-vAren´] Pronunciation Key, 1756–1819, French revolutionary. A violent antimonarchist in the Convention, the revolutionary national assembly, he and Jean Marie Collot d'Herbois were the two members of the ultrarevolutionary HebErtists (see HEbert, Jacques RenE) faction to sit on the Committee of Public Safety. A consumate politician, he survived the execution of HEbert, sucessfully intruiged against Georges Danton, and helped bring about the downfall of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor. He was deported to French Guiana for his role in the Reign of Terror. He refused an amnesty offered by Napoleon Bonaparte (later Emperor Napoleon I). Ultimately he went to Haiti, where he died.
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