Maximilien De Robespierre

Politician

Birthday May 6, 1758

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Arras, France

DEATH DATE Jul 27, 1794 (36)

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About

French left-wing lawyer and member of the Jacobin Club and Committee of Public Safety. He was a leader during the period of the French Revolution known as the Reign of Terror and ordered the execution of thousands of people who he accused of being "enemies of the revolution".

Before Fame

He was chosen out of five hundred students to deliver a speech welcoming King Louis XVI.

Trivia

He was guillotined without trial in 1794 thus ending the Reign of Terror, a a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution when members of the Committee of Public Safety executed supposed "enemies of the revolution".

Family Life

His father was a lawyer and his mother was a brewer's daugther.

Associated With

He plays an important role in the short story Thermidor by Neil Gaiman.

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