Career
He was guillotined 28 July 1794 with 21 others during the Thermidorian Reaction, including Saint-Just and Robespierre. 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.
= Departmental roles = Actions in Paris National agent in Paris
= A rigorous policy = Thermidor =.
