Babœuf, François Noel, a violent revolutionary in France, self-styled Gracchus; headed an insurrection against the Directory, “which died in the birth, stifled by the soldiery”; convicted of conspiracy, was guillotined, after attempting to commit suicide (1764‒1797).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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