Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

French writer, orator and statesman

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1749

Place of Birth: Le Bignon-Mirabeau, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Date of Death: 02-Apr-1791

Profession: writer, politician, economist, diplomat, journalist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (9 March 1749 – 2 April 1791) was a leader of the early stages of the French Revolution.
A noble, he had been involved in numerous scandals before the start of the Revolution in 1789 that had left his reputation in ruins.
Nonetheless, he rose to the top of the French political hierarchy in the years 1789–1791 and acquired the reputation of a voice of the people.
A successful orator, he was the leader of the moderate position among revolutionaries by favoring a constitutional monarchy built on the model of Great Britain.
When he died (of natural causes) he was a great national hero, even though support for his moderate position was slipping away.
The later discovery that he was in the pay of King Louis XVI and the Austrian enemies of France beginning in 1790 brought him into posthumous disgrace.
Historians are deeply split on whether he was a great leader who almost saved the nation from the Terror, a venal demagogue lacking political or moral values, or a traitor in the pay of the enemy.



Description	French painter and court painter
Date of birth/death	7 February 1745	17 January 1826
Location of birth/death	Martigues	Paris
Work location	Marseille (–1778); Great Britain; Netherlands; Paris (1778–1826)
Authority control	: Q447676 VIAF: 24854160 ISNI: 0000 0000 7327 7255 ULAN: 500016461 LCCN: n2005014652 NLA: 35091551 WorldCat