Maximilien Robespierre

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Maximilien Robespierre was a leading Jacobin lawyer and politician who became a central architect of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.


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instanceOf French revolutionary
human
lawyer
politician
birthName Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre
burialPlace Errancis Cemetery
causeOfDeath decapitation
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1758-05-06
dateOfDeath 1794-07-28
dateOfEvent Arrest on 1794-07-27
educatedAt Collège Louis-le-Grand
University of Paris
familyName Robespierre
fieldOfWork law
politics
revolutionary theory
gender male
givenName Maximilien
ideology radical democracy
republicanism
virtue politics
knownFor advocacy of price controls and social welfare measures
defense of universal male suffrage
influence on the Committee of Public Safety
leadership in the Jacobin Club
leading role in the Reign of Terror
mannerOfDeath execution by guillotine
memberOf Committee of Public Safety
Jacobin Club
movement French Revolution
Jacobinism
nativeLanguage French
nickname The Incorruptible
notableWork advocacy of the Reign of Terror
occupation lawyer
politician
revolutionary
participatedIn Fall of the Girondins
French Revolution
Reign of Terror
Thermidorian events of 9 Thermidor Year II
placeOfBirth Arras
Artois
Kingdom of France
placeOfDeath France
Paris
positionHeld Deputy to the Estates-General of 1789
Deputy to the National Convention
Member of the Committee of Public Safety
religiousBelief Cult of the Supreme Being


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