Jean-Baptiste Michonis

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Jean-Baptiste Michonis (1735 – 17 June 1794) was a personality of the French Revolution. Originally a producer of lemonade, he became a member of the Commune de Paris, inspector of prisons and chief of police. He participated in the "complot de l'œillet", a failed attempt to rescue Marie-Antoinette organised by Jean, Baron de Batz, and for this was guillotined in what is now the Place de la Nation. He was buried in the cimetière de Picpus.{{cite book |author=Will Bashor |title=Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GCO9DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 |date=1 December 2016 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=978-1-4422-5500-5 |pages=97–}}{{cite book |author=John Hardman |title=Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k9-zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA297 |date=10 September 2019 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-24308-6 |pages=297–}}{{cite book |author=Ian Dunlop |title=Marie-Antoinette: A Portrait |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_8pnAAAAMAAJ |date=1 January 1993 |publisher=Sinclair-Stevenson |isbn=978-1-85619-261-3}}