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Antoine Grantaire

Antoine Grantaire (1803-6 June 1832) was a French student revolutionary who was affiliated with the republican Les Amis de l'ABC secret society and died in the June Rebellion of 1832.

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Antoine Grantaire was born in Paris, Ile-de-France, France in 1803, and he attended university alongside Julien Enjolras and several radical republicans. While Grantaire himself was a skeptic and a drunkard, he attended the meetings of Enjolras' Les Amis de l'ABC secret society in the leadup to the June Rebellion due to his close friendship with Enjolras. Grantaire went on to fight alongside the revolutionaries defending the barricade on the Rue de la Chanvrerie, although, on the day of the rebellion, Grantaire was unconscious from drink and only awoke when Enjolras was about to be executed. Grantaire joined Enjolras on the second floor of the Cafe Musain, where they defiantly clasped hands and held the revolutionary red flag high before the National Guardsmen executed them by firing squad. Grantaire's last words were "Vive la République!"

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