Les Onze

Les voilà, encore une fois : Billaud, Carnot, Prieur, Prieur, Couthon, Robespierre, Collot, Barère, Lindet, Saint-Just, Saint-André. We all know the famous tableau des Onze where the Comité de salut public is represented, which, in 1794, established the revolutionary government of the Second Republic and the politics of terror. But who was the leader of this work? Under what conditions and for what purposes was it painted by François-Elie Corentin, the Tiepolo of Terror? Mingling history and fiction, Michon brings to life, with the power of evocation that one knows, the characters of this "cène révolutionnaire," according to Michelet's expression, who, in his turn, becomes one of the protagonists of the film. Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française 2009.