Cousin

John, a native of France, and generally regarded as the earliest French historical -painter. He died in 1590. ° Couthon, Georges, a French lawyer, president of the court of _— at Clermont; born in 1756. coming a member of the legislative a embly, and of the national convention, he voted for the death of Louis XVI. Sharing afterward the power and participating in the atrocities of Robes pierre, he was also involved in his ruin. He was guillotined in 1794.