A fabricated letter linking this person to John the Baptist caused the arrest of a self-styled “Mother of God” named Catherine Théot. To combat price gouging on food, this person spearheaded the Law of the General Maximum. This person was convinced that the Prussian-born Anacharsis Cloots was plotting with the Exaggerators who supported the Le Père Duchesne paper. This person warned against the “ancient insanity of governments” in a speech defending a festival centered around a tree on top of a man-made (*) mountain. (10[1])As a nod to his support of direct democracy, Thomas Carlyle gave this person the epithet “sea-green Incorruptible.” This person shot himself in the jaw in the Hôtel de Ville. De facto control over the Committee of Public Safety was held by, for 10 points, (10[1])what leader of the “Reign of Terror” during the French Revolution? ■END■