Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794)

Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) (born Johann Baptist Hermann Maria Baron de Cloots, in French: Jean Baptiste Baron de Cloots du Val-de-Grâce) was born at Gnadenthal Castle in Donsbrüggen near Cleves. He moved to Paris at the age of 20 and became known as a writer, politician and revolutionary of the French Revolution. A prominent advocate of the universal validity of human rights, he proclaimed himself as "ambassador of human kind" during the Fête de la Fédération of 14 July 1790. As a foreigner in exile, he was falsely accused as a spy after 1793 and guillotined in public on 24 March 1794.

Edmé Quenedey (1756–1830): Anacharsis Cloots / Né le 24 juin 1755 / Orateur du genre humain / à l'Assemblée Nationale, engraving, date of creation unknown, source: Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris, accession number G.39896, https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/anacharsis-cloots-ne-le-24-juin-1755-orateur-du-genre-humain-a-l-assemblee, Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.