Database: Andrés de Guzmán

Andrés Guzman came to France in 1778 from Spain. An aristocrat, his lavish lifestyle brought him to the verge of bankruptcy. At the height of the Revolution, he joined Jacques-René Hébert's camp along with the Enragés and became a fierce and relentless opponent of the Girondins. He eventually fell in with members of the bande noire, or black hand, a group of speculators who specialized in issuing false bank notes or purchasing (well below their price) various châteaux and abbeys.