Maximilien Robespierre
He was the “incorruptible” who orchestrated the Great Terror.
AKA
President of the National Convention
Born
1758
Died
1794
Portrait Year
1796
Portrait Age
38
Maximilien de Robespierre (1758-1794) was the mastermind of the Reign of Terror (1793-1794), the dark side of the French Revolution that perverted its high ideals of democracy with fanaticism and cruelty. Only Robespierre’s own beheading ended the slaughter.
A man of stern virtue and morality, he was a small town lawyer who made his name at the opening of the revolution but turned radical with the pressures of power. His early enlightened views were eclipsed by his fanaticism as he was engulfed by the Revolution.
Region
France
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