Robespierre

No leader wants to share Robespierre’s rendezvous with his own guillotine.

The radical Enlightenment, on the other hand, ended in the massacres of Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown and placed under arrest; he was executed the following day.

According to Robespierre, the deficiencies in individuals were rectified by upholding the 'common good' which he conceptualized as the collective will of the people; this idea was derived from Rousseau's General Will.

Actions such as attacking distinguished academics such as Antoine Lavoisier helped to establish Robespierre as a tyrant and intolerant of progress; eventually this would be one of the keys to his downfall.

As a consequence of these actions, however, Robespierre's own popular support eroded markedly.

Carlyle, p. 384. After this, he supposedly fell ill, and did not attend the evening session because of "stomach pain", which saved him from being guillotined along with Robespierre.

Criticism of George Washington Paine believed that U.S. President George Washington had conspired with Robespierre to imprison him.

Gay-Lussac narrowly avoided conscription and by the time of entry to the École Polytechnique his father had been arrested (due to Robespierre 's Reign of Terror ).

He was branded a traitor by the Convention under Maximilien de Robespierre during the Reign of Terror in 1794.

Jacques-Louis David: Revolutionary Artist. pp. 90-150 During the height of the reign of terror, David was an ardent supporter of radicals such as Robespierre and Marat, and twice offered up his life in their defense.

J.M. Thompson, Robespierre and the French Revolution (1962) p 22 After the first year of revolution, this power had been stripped away.

Leon Trotsky has compared Lenin with Maximilien Robespierre yet in 1904.

Members of the Girondins later accused Marat, Robespierre, and Danton as inciters of the massacres in an attempt to further their dictatorial power.

New members were appointed the day after Robespierre's execution, and term limits were imposed (a quarter of the committee retired every three months); its powers were reduced piece by piece.

On 27 July 1794, the Thermidorian Reaction led to the arrest and execution of Robespierre.

Robespierre tried to commit suicide before his execution by shooting himself, although the bullet only shattered his jaw.

Thus Robespierre came to power on the back of popular street violence.

Under war conditions and with national survival seemingly at stake, the Montagnard Jacobins under Maximilien Robespierre centralized denunciations, trials, and executions.

When the new National Convention held its first meeting, David was sitting with his friends Jean-Paul Marat and Robespierre.