Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (9 March 1749 – 2 April 1791) was the President of the National Assembly of the French Republic from 30 January to 15 February 1791, succeeding Henri-Baptiste Gregoire and preceding Adrien-Jean-Francois Duport. He was known for his affiliation with King Louis XVI of France and the Austrian Empire at the time of his death.
Biography[]
Poster labeling Mirabeau as a traitor for accepting bribes from the Austrian Empire.
Honore Gabriel Riqueti was born to a noble merchant family that originated in Italy, which moved to Marseilles and later to Provence in the Kingdom of France. He was born in Nemours in the Ile-de-France region of central France, which included the capital of Paris. In 1767, he was commissioned to lead a cavalry regiment that his grandfather led years before, and became a politician of France. He also became a member of the Assassin Order and rose to become its Mentor. He once met the Marquis de Sade while writing erotic works to a married woman, but he disliked the Marquis intensely. Soon, he journeyed to England and became a member of the National Assembly of France during the French Revolution. Mirabeau was not trusted by some members of the Assassins when he was friends with Templar Order Grand Master Francois de la Serre and talked with the Templar Order many times, and he was disliked in his public life because he had correspondence with Queen Marie-Antoinette of France.
Death[]
People rioting at the Pantheon
Mirabeau was poisoned in 1791 by Pierre Bellec, a member of the Assassin Order, because of his cooperation with the Templars, and Bellec blamed the murder on Elise de la Serre. His collaboration with King Louis XVI of France and his accepting of bribes from the Austrian Empire were revealed to the public by Maximilien Robespierre in May 1794 and the people of Paris rioted outside the Pantheon to stop him from being buried there. Arno Dorian, an assassin that was recruited by Mirabeau in 1789, removed the Assassin relics from his tomb to prevent the people from believing that the Assassins across France were all associated with the royalists.