CLOOTS, JEAN BAPTISTE DU VAL DE GRACE, BARON VON 794) , better known as ANACHARSIS CLOOTS, revolutionary fanatic, was born near Cleves, at the castle of Gnadenthal, of a noble Prussian family of Dutch origin. His father placed him in the military academy at Berlin, but he left it at the age of 20 and traversed Europe, preaching his revolution ary philosophy as an apostle, and spending his money as a man of pleasure. On the outbreak of the Revolution he went to Paris. On June 19, 179o, he appeared at the bar of the Assembly at the head of 36 foreigners; and, in the name of this "embassy of the human race," declared that the world adhered to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. After this he was known as "the orator of the human race," by which title he called himself, dropping that of baron, and substituting for his bap tismal names the pseudonym of Anacharsis, from the famous philosophical romance of the Abbe J. J. Barthelemy. In 1792 he placed i 2,000 livres at the disposal of the Republic—"for the arming of 4o or 5o fighters in the sacred cause of man against tyrants." In September he was elected a member of the Con vention, and he voted the king's death in the name of the human race. He was guillotined as an Hebertist on March See G. Avenel, Anacharsis Cloots, orateur du genre humain (1865).