He served as president from 1959 to 1969.The short stories of writer Guy de Maupassant detail many aspects of French life in the 19th century.Author of the satirical novella 'Candide,' Voltaire is widely considered one of France's greatest Enlightenment writers.Marie Antoinette helped provoke the popular unrest that led to the French Revolution and to the overthrow of the monarchy in August 1792.Maximilien de Robespierre was an official during the French Revolution and one of the principal architects of the Reign of Terror.© 2020 Biography and the Biography logo are registered trademarks of A&E Television Networks, LLC. For this day he had planned a speech addressing the relationship between religion, morality, and the republican principles; and to establish the Two days after the Festival, on 10 June (22 Prairial), Robespierre pushed the National Convention to pass a new law drafted by him and On 28 June (10 Messidor), Saint-Just returned from the northern front bearing news: the Revolutionary Army had defeated the Austrian army in Belgium at the Having abandoned both the Committee and the National Convention, which he stopped frequenting after his presidency ended on 18 June (30 Prairial),During his absence from both the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety through the months of June and July (Messidor), Robespierre prepared a speech to be delivered on 26 July (8 Thermidor).Later the same day he presented the speech at the Jacobin Club, where it was received with overwhelming support despite some initial opposition.The Convention then voted to arrest five deputies – Robespierre, Upon receiving news that Robespierre and his allies had not been imprisoned, the National Convention, which was in permanent session, declared that Robespierre, Saint-Just, and the other deputes were outlaws, and commanded armed forces to enter the Hôtel de Ville. Shortly after, troops from the National Convention stormed the building and seized and arrested Robespierre and his followers. Death of Robespierre, Maximilien de Robespierre 6 May 1758 - 28 July 1794, French lawyer, politician, and one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French RevolutionRobespierre was declared an outlaw, and condemned without judicial process, The following day, 10 Thermidor (28 July 1794), he was executed with 21 of his closest associates. The children were raised by their maternal grandparents. On that day half of the members of the Paris commune (conseil-général), around 70 people, were sent to the guillotine; meanwhile 35 se… On the following day, this tension in the Convention allowed During this time, two different factions rose in opposition of the restructured Revolutionary Government: the left-wing With these purges, the power of the Committee was reaffirmed. Maximilien de Robespierre was the leading voice of the government that ruled France during the French Revolution. Voices from a momentous epoch 1789-1795, p. 230 He was one of the most influential figures associated with the ‘Reign Of Terror’ and the ‘French Revolution’. For the English theatrical play, see Cobb, R. & C. Jones (1988) The French Revolution. When he received word that the National Convention had declared him an outlaw, he tried to commit suicide but succeeded only in wounding his jaw. Though nominally all members of the committee were equal, during the Thermidorian Reaction Robespierre was presented as the most responsible by the surviving protagonists of the Terror, especially by Bertrand Barère, a prominent member of the Plain. Faced with pressures both from the outside and from within, the Revolutionary government instituted the Reign of Terror in September. A year later, he participated in writing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, the foundation of the French constitution. This, combined with the increasing demands of both the Committee on Public Safety and the National Convention washed away Robespierre's mental and physical health to the point he was forced to reduce his presence in the Jacobin Club and the National Convention.Robespierre did not reappear in the National Convention until 7 May (18 Floréal).
He also opposed the death penalty and slavery. By the summer of 1794, many in the Revolutionary government began to question his motives, as the country was no longer threatened by outside enemies.