Very close to the 23rd...the 19th actually. An Aries that missed being a Taurus by a day. I'm glad I wasn't born on the 20th...that was Hitler's birthday! As far as my being like BV...I could see myself doing some of the same things in the same situations as portrayed in the Conte book. But I don't know if I would have had the will required to handle all the bloodshed. But then again, I'm not living in a time and place where the only way to overthrow a corrupt tyranny was by using force. It could be argued that I'm living under a corrupt tyranny right now. But at least it has a time limit and I get to vote on it.

Regarding the man born on the 25th...even if he had the same Sun sign as Saint-Just his moon and planets were probably not the same.

Regarding the Masons...if I recall correctly many of players in the Revolution were Masons. So I'm sure this contributed to events and allowed for some behind the scenes agreements. But I'm very sceptical that there were any "secret chiefs" that we don't know about. The people we all know were such powerful personalities that I don't think anyone was pulling their strings.

We could always start a story that there was more than one man claiming to be Saint-Just and that the real one escaped Thermidor.