Reign of Terror
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The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to the Federal
Nine émigrés are executed by guillotine, 1793
Historical caricature of the Reign of Terror.
Bertrand Barère by Jean-Louis Laneuville.
The Battle of Fleurus, won by General Jourdan over the Coalition Army led by the Prince of Coburg and William of Orange on 26 June 1794
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
Reign of Terror
…of the revolution occurred. Will Durant stated that "strictly, it should be dated from the Law of Suspects, 17 September 1793, to the execution of Maximilien Robespierre, 28 July 1794." The Terror concluded with the fall of Robespierre and his alleged allies in July 1794, in what is known as the Thermidorian Reaction…
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.