Antoine Simon

Antoine Simon (1736 in Troyes, France – 1794). He was a shoemaker at Rue des Cordeliers in Paris. A member of the Club of the Cordeliers, representative of the Paris Commune, he was designated to watch over Louis XVII at the Temple. He was unfit to take care of a child, because he was uneducated. The royalist legends say he tortured the boy physically and mentally, hitting him, forcing him to drink alcohol, blaspheme his parents and even have sex with prostitutes. However, none of these accusations can be proved.
He was later removed from his position and executed on the guillotine on 28 July 1794, during the "White Terror".…more