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Antoine Duranton

French revolutionary, minister of justice and finance

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ2853907 ↗
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Antoine Duranthon (1736 – 20 December 1793) was Minister of Justice in the Government of France from April to July 1792. He was born in Dordogne. He was guillotined during the French Revolution.

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This entry incorporates text from “Antoine Duranton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.