Committee of Public Safety
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The Committee of Public Safety was a committee of the National Convention which formed the provisional government and war cabinet during the Reign of Terror, a violent phase of the French Revolution.
Lettre anglaise (English Letter) dated 29 June 1793 as published by the National Convention during the French Revolution (1793) to prove English spying and conspiracy
Maximilien Robespierre, member of the Committee of Public Safety
Comité de Salut public, An II
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Maximilien Robespierre
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Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre fervently campaigned
Committee of Public Safety
…powerful. In December 1793, the Convention formally conferred executive power upon the committee. Among the members, the radical Montagnard Jacobin Maximilien Robespierre was one of the most well-known, though he did not have any special powers or privileges. After the arrest and execution of the rival factions of…
c. 1790 portrait
1794 print with the slogan "Supreme Being, Sovereign People, French Republic". An elderly Voltaire is depicted along with a bust of Brutus and the grave of Rousseau.
Between 1787 and 1789 Robespierre lived in this house, now on Rue Maximilien de Robespierre
The revolutionary decrees passed by the Assembly in August 1789 culminated in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.