ACCORDING TO SURVIVING city records, 2,918 people were guillotined in Paris between 14 July 1789 and 21 October 1796. Of those, 2,518 were men and 370 women (with 30 victims of unspecified gender).
Under 18: 22
18–20: 45
20–25: 336
25–50: 1,669
50–60: 528
60–70: 206
70–80: 103
Over 80: 9
Aristocrats (who were not politicians, soldiers or members of the clergy): 381
Members of the Assemblée nationale: 39
Members of the Convention: 45
Members of the Paris Commune (city council): 73
Magistrates and ex-politicians: 245
Bishops and archbishops: 6
Other clergy: 319
High-ranking royal civil servants: 25
Members of the professions (bankers, doctors, lawyers, solicitors, etc.): 479
Merchants and shopkeepers: 275
Craftsmen: 391
Soldiers: 365
Writers: 25
Artists: 16
Servants, gardeners, coachmen, etc.: 129
Peasants: 105
Outside Paris, about 14,000 people were guillotined (around 3,500 of them in the west of France during the rebellion there). The approximate social breakdown was:
Workers: about 30%
Bourgeois: about 25%
Peasants: below 25%
Aristocrats: about 10%
Clergy: below 10%
Estimates as to the numbers who died during the Revolution for other unnatural and/or unnecessary reasons vary hugely. Predictably, republican sources play them down, royalist sources bump them up. It is generally thought that the French people who died of poverty, firing squads, mass drownings, lynchings, cannon fire or in civil-war battles between 1789 and 1796 probably numbered almost 300,000.