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Maximilien de Robespierre, elected leader of the Jacobin club in 1790, influenced his extreme radical left-wing beliefs and Revolutionary desires to overthrow the monarchy. Beginning with criticizing the government, Robespierre succeeded in executing Louis XVI in 1792, relaying the wishes to usurp the aristocracy, and purging the Girondins, who were moderate and wasn't extreme as the Jacobins. Also, by participating in writing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, foundation for the current French constitution, Robespierre soon became a popular spokesman for the sans-culottes and the poor. He was also selected to head the delegation to the National Convention in August 1792 and to take place as head in the Committee of Public Safety in 1793, and under his guidance became a case of dictatorial control for the Revolutionary government. Facing threats of civil war and foreign invasion, Robespierre oversaw guillotine execution of over 17,000 counter-revolutionaries and death of his political opponents for 11 months beginning in September 1793 a.k.a Reign of Terror, a violent and bloody radical phase in the overall French Revolution. However, Robespierre, intoxicated with power and control, escalated fear in both the left and right wings and started to oppose him and his followers. Failing to kill himself after capture and being seized later, he and eventually, 103 of his allies, were guillotined without trial. His death in 1794 resulted in the loss of credibility of the COPS, and France returned to bourgeois values, corruption, and military failure since radicalism started to die down. Napoleon became Emperor afterwards.

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Depicted is the execution of Maximilien de Robespierre in 1794. Robespierre was typically on the other side leading the executions by guillotine and the Reign of Terror itself. Robespierre's execution marked the end of the Reign of Terror.

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The guillotine was the primary weapon of choice for executions during the French Revolution and used in thousands of men and women during the Reign of Terror. The guillotine was used because it was thought to be of a more humane and egalitarian form of execution as opposed to hanging and being broken at the wheel. Now it is viewed as a symbol for the revolution and its cruelty.

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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just was a young, ambitious French revolutionist. At 25, he hoped to take place in the Revolutionary government for he wanted to advocate for the poor and peasants, which in 1791, he does. Through his Esprit De La Revolution in 1791, he accomplishes in degrading the monarchy and preaching hopes for sovereignty including rationality and justice for all. In 1793, he is elected deputy for the National Convention by burning counterrevolutionary books and conveys on the hope for Louis XVI's execution of the king without trial. After ousting the Girondins, becoming part of COPS in 1793, and elected president of the Convention between the years of 1793-1794, Saint-Just passes radical Ventose Decrees-- return of confiscated lands from the peasants, and by benefiting the lower class through the upper class, this action becomes important to the French Revolution's ideals. In June 1793, he visited Army of the Rhine in Strasbourg where the Terror in Paris was reaching its height against the monarach and to the Army of the North. He gains the title as "archangel of the Revolution."

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Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette, a French politican taking part in the Revolution started with taking part of the Jacobin club, and soon, became the orator to the ideas of the sans-culotte movement, a case to seek rightful treatment for all men regardless of wealth. He was elected Chief Procurator of the Commune of Paris-- a radical revolutionary government ruling Paris-- in August 1792 and elected as President of the Commune in October 1792, re-elected in the December of the year, allowing him to freely speak of his revolutionary thoughts. Opposing the Girondins, he helped put them on trial. Also, he helped establish the Reign of Terror. By demanding revolutionary changes in 1793 due to the food shortages and war and fears of a royalist betrayal buzzed in Paris, Chaumette declared war between the rich and the poor and for the hoarders of the countryside to be punished. This act, with knowing of Toulon betrayal to the British, made Convention agree on the needs for "terror". His downfall was due to his ultra-radicalism clashing with Robespierre's ideas and his strong anti-Christianity alleging him to be in an anti-government plot. Continuous accusations on possible counterrevolutionary beliefs and his taking part in a prison plot led to his death in April 1794.

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Marie Antoinette, the wife of King Louis XVI, is being sent to be executed via guillotine. Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI (previously executed) were the last monarchs before the National Convention and Reign of Terror took place. Prior to this, she had her wig removed and hair shaved to make the execution easier, and was stripped of her usual lavish clothes for added embarrassment.

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(involved 1789-1794) George Jacques Danton was a radical French Revolutionary leader and speaker, also known to have played a large part  in overthrowing the monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic. After voting in favor of the king's execution, he moved on to deliver speeches, one of which was to the National Convention, stating it was necessary for France to secure natural boundaries to protect the Revolution. In the early 1790's,  he and Robespierre led the Mountain, the French National Convention's radical faction. His goal as the president of the committee of public safety was to stabilize the revolutionary movement, along with attempting to form peace with foreign powers. Danton helped found the Cordeliers Club in 1790, which became the advance guard of popular evolutionary activities. He died on April 5, 1794 with several of his followers and other defendants from the guillotine, which he had promised to either pull down or die beneath.

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Pictured below is a painting called "Liberty Leading the People during the French Revolution." During the revolution and the Reign of Terror, people began to have new feelings of freedom reflected in their art work. Art, songs, and literature took a turn to patriotism an to celebrate republican virtue.

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(involved 1790-1794) Jacques Hebert is a French journalist and editor and founder of a radical newspaper, who protested outside the Convention, calling for administrative and political purges, a low fixed price for bread, and a limitation of the electoral franchise to sans-culottes alone. He became the chief spokesmen for Parisian sansculottes. On 17 August, the Convention voted for general conscription, which mobilized all citizens to serve as soldiers or suppliers in the war effort. On 5 September the Convention institutionalized The Reign of Terror: systematic and lethal repression of perceived enemies within the country. At the time of his death, Hebert had been putting out his radical newspaper for months, and someone exposed his actions, inflicting death by the guillotine to Hebert and his followers.

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During the Reign of Terror, the newfound rational ideals, freedom, and empowerment led to the questioning of beliefs and eventually de-Christianization. The de-Christianization led to form the temple or cult of reason with ideals based on liberty, reason, and virtue in order to form a civil religion.

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Timeline
http://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/law-of-suspects-1793/
http://www.history.com/topics/french-revolution/videos/robespierre-and-the-reign-of-terror

Peoples
https://www.biography.com/people/maximilien-de-robespierre-37422
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/robespierre-overthrown-in-france
http://www.historytoday.com/marisa-linton/robespierre-and-terror
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Pierre%20Gaspard%20Chaumette
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-de-Saint-Just
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/louis-antoine-leon-de-saint-just
http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/french-history-biographies/georges-jacques-danton

Images
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/robespierre-overthrown-in-france
http://www.pbs.org/marieantoinette/faces/antoinette.html
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/liberty-leading-the-people-during-the-french-revolution-war-is-hell-store.html
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist151/French%20Revolution%20II/album/slides/temple%20of%20reason%20Notre%20Dame.html