French Revolution-HoNor? Gabriel Riqueti comte de Mirabeau (9 March 1749  2 April 1791) was a French revolutionary as well as a writer diplomat journalist and French politician. He was a popular orator and statesman. During the French Revolution he was a moderate favoring a constitutional monarchy built on the model of Great Britain. He unsuccessfully conducted secret negotiations with the French monarchy in an effort to reconcile it with the Revolution