The Pale Assassin - Cast List
Among the real people mentioned in the story:
- Jean-Sylvain Bailly, scientist and astronomer, elected first Mayor of Paris, July 1789
- Jeanne du Barry, mistress to Louis XV (the King’s late father)
- Baron de Batz, financial speculator and adventurer, involved in the failed rescue of the King and escaped afterwards
- Rose Bertin, milliner and dressmaker to Queen Marie-Antoinette
- Jacques-Pierre Brissot, leader of the Girondin party (progressive, liberal deputies), led calls for war
- Prince de Condé, cousin to the King, who formed an army in the King’s support
- Marquis de Condorcet, liberal aristocrat and social reformer, who helped write the constitutions of ’91 and ’93
- Georges Danton, lawyer, prominent member of the Jacobin party (increasingly powerful and radical revolutionaries), a towering figure in the Revolution
- Jacques-Louis David, celebrated artist
- Camille Desmoulins, lawyer, journalist, radical Jacobin
- Count Axel von Fersen, colonel in the Royal Swedish Regiment in French service, probable lover of Queen Marie-Antoinette
- Dr Guillotin, inventor responsible for the notorious killing machine known as the ‘guillotine’
- Marquis de Lafayette, hero of American War, liberal aristocrat, commander of National Guard, who tried, unsuccessfully, to support both King and country
- Louis XVI, the French King, later known as ‘Louis Capet’
- Louis, Comte de Narbonne, liberal aristocrat, Minister for War, Madame de Stael’s lover
- Jacques Necker, Swiss banker, the King’s Finance Minister, Madame de Stael’s father
- Marie-Antoinette, Queen, married to Louis XVI, Austrian by birth, hated by the French people for both her nationality and her extravagance
- Jerome Pétion, lawyer and writer, elected Mayor of Paris November 1791
- Alexandre-Onesime Pradère, composer
- Maximilien Robespierre, lawyer, key figure in Jacobin party, clashed with Girondins, became the feared, ‘moral’ leader of the Revolution
- Germaine de Staël, Necker’s daughter, liberal, renowned for her salons and liberal political views
- William Pitt, English Prime-Minister at the time of the Revolution
