Claude-François de Payan (4 May 1766, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - 28 July 1794, Paris) was a political figure of the French Revolution. He was guillotined 28 July 1794 with 21 others during the Thermidorian Reaction, including Saint-Just and Robespierre. Life Early career Payan was from a noble family in the Dauphiné, descended from the count palatines, which had held important army and magistrate posts. His father was the squire François de Payan and so Claude-François naturally joined an artillery regiment before the Revolution. On the Revolution he was highly enthused by the new ideas and fully subscribed to them. His elder brother Joseph-François de Payan was also a revolutionary. Departmental roles Actions in Paris National agent in Paris A rigorous policy Thermidor Sources Albert Soboul, Dictionnaire historique de la Révolution française, Paris, PUF, 2005 Notes et archives 1789–1794 References French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution 1766 births 1794 deaths People from Drôme