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Hace 4 días · De estas, 2.622 fueron ejecutadas en París, principalmente en la guillotina que se colocó en la actual plaza de la Concordia; allí serían ejecutados tanto Luis XVI y María Antonieta como el mismo Robespierre, tras el golpe de Termidor.
Hace 5 días · In effect, the Incorruptible’s turn against the immoderate use of the Terror created a conspiracy against him where one had not existed before. The resolution was passed, and Robespierre, his brother Augustin, Louis–Antoine Saint–Just, Georges Couthon, and several others were arrested.
Hace 2 días · Annotation. This engraving, based on a color portrait by Beys, depicts the death of Robespierre on the guillotine. The executioners wear not the traditional hangman’s hood but red bonnets representing liberty. This judgment notes Robespierre’s failure to the Revolution itself. Contemporaries emphasized that Robespierre’s punishment was ...
Hace 3 días · Maximilien Robespierre was a powerful and terrifying figure during the Reign of Terror, and his word often could sentence a man to death or protect him from it. He was behind both the clemency for Danton and his allies during the Terror, and, later, the ultimate strictness that would condemn them to death, in just one stunning example of his ...
Hace 3 días · Increasingly isolated from the sections and the sans-culottes, and even from the National Convention, the Jacobin Club suffered from the fate that befell Robespierre, one of its leading lights on 9 Thermidor (27 July).
Hace 2 días · Ten days after the Carmelites were beheaded Maximilian Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety fell from power. Nevertheless, the anti-Catholic spirit remained, as the new government, the Directory, still regarded the Church as the enemy of the Revolution.
Hace 4 días · Arrested in the fall of 1793, Williams records with passion and sorrow the degeneration of the Revolution into chaos and murder. She sketches the colorful personalities of her friends and acquaintances (Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Georges-Jacques Danton) and enemies (Maximilien Robespierre, Louis-Antoine de St.
