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Maximilien Robespierre, (born May 6, 1758, Arras, France—died July 28, 1794, Paris), radical Jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution. In the latter months of 1793 he came to dominate the Committee of Public Safety , the principal organ of the Revolutionary government during the Reign of Terror , but in 1794 he ...

Maximilien de Robespierre was a radical Jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution. In the latter months of 1793, he came to dominate the Committee of Public...

Who was Maximilien Robespierre? Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was one of the primary figures of the French Revolution (1789-1799). After rising to prominence in the radical Jacobin Club, he dominated the French Republic during the Reign of Terror, overseeing the executions of counter-revolutionary suspects.

Maximilien Robespierre - Revolution, Terror, France: After the fall of the Girondins, the Montagnards were left to deal with the country’s desperate position. Threatened from within by the movement for federalism and by the civil war in the Vendée in the northwest and threatened at the frontiers by the anti-French coalition, the Revolution ...

u v w x y z Maximilien Robespierre © Robespierre was a French lawyer and politician who became one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution. Maximilien Marie Isidore de...