The Companions of Jehu were formed in the Lyon region of France in April 1795 to hunt down Jacobins implicated in the Reign of Terror.[1][2] It is possible that they were founded by the Marquis de Besignan,[3][4] who also founded royalist underground groups in Forez and Dauphiné with the Prince of Condé in 1796.[5] Their victims are believed to have numbered at least in the hundreds. They were made famous by the 1857 novel The Companions of Jehu by Alexandre Dumas which presented a highly romanticised account of them.[6]
- ^ Jean-Baptiste Monfalcon, Histoire de la ville de Lyon, Guilbert et Dorier, 1847 vol.II, page 1051
- ^ David Andress, The Terror, Abacus 2005 p.361
- ^ "NOTICE HISTORIQUE SUR LES VRAIS COMPAGNONS DE JÉHU ♣ PREMIERE PARTIE (1) - La Maraîchine Normande". 23 February 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- ^ (in French) Ernest Daudet (1901) "Conspirateurs du Midi sous la Révolution Française La Revue du Midi pp. 361-375
- ^ "Pierre Joseph DUCLAUX de BÉSIGNAN - "pierfit" - Geneanet". Archived from the original on 10 April 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- ^ Dumas, Alexandre (1 December 2004). The Companions of Jehu. Retrieved 9 April 2017 – via Project Gutenberg.