Barnave

Barnave was a revolutionary who guarded the Royal Family on their return trip after their having been apprehended while trying to escape Paris. Finding them not the monsters that propaganda had led him to believe, afterward, he secretly met and corresponded with Marie Antoinette, trying to help them gain freedom. Papers implicating him were found in Louis XVI's belongings during one of the attacks on the Tuileries and he was executed for treason.