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It was Robespierre who called the loudest for the execution of King Louis XVI after the King's arrest on the 10th of August 1792. As the head of the Jacobin Club, Robespierre orchestrated the downfall of his political opponents the Girondins, and became the absolute leader of the French Revolutionary Government and the Terror. He also ordered for the closing of various churches, even going as far to occasionally raze the church steeples to the ground, citing that their design invoked the aristocracy and thus were "undemocratic."<ref>[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/Archives/Fidelity_archives/parricide.html Operation Parricide: Sade, Robespierre & the French Revolution]</ref> After declaring himself the head of the Cult of the Supreme Being (a deistic religion opposed to the [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] Church) he was overthrown and executed during the [[Thermidorian Reaction|Coup of Thermidor]].
It was Robespierre who called the loudest for the execution of King Louis XVI after the King's arrest on the 10th of August 1792. As the head of the Jacobin Club, Robespierre orchestrated the downfall of his political opponents the Girondins, and became the absolute leader of the French Revolutionary Government and the Terror. He also ordered for the closing of various churches, even going as far to occasionally raze the church steeples to the ground, citing that their design invoked the aristocracy and thus were "undemocratic."<ref>[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/Archives/Fidelity_archives/parricide.html Operation Parricide: Sade, Robespierre & the French Revolution]</ref> After declaring himself the head of the Cult of the Supreme Being (a deistic religion opposed to the [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] Church) he was overthrown and executed during the [[Thermidorian Reaction|Coup of Thermidor]].
==Legacy==
Robespierre was later made into a monument at the Alexander Garden following the [[October Revolution]] by the Bolshieveks, who were inspired by the French Revolution. However, the monument was poorly made (being made of concrete and pipes instead of marble or bronze due to the events of the Russian Civil War and lacking resources for either) and eventually collapsed on November 3, 1918, three days after being unveiled. He was part of a line of statues, the Monumental Propaganda, commemorating various other French Revolutionary figures such as [[Georges Danton]], [[François-Noël Babeuf]] and [[Jean-Paul Marat]], although the only one besides Robespierre himself to be completed was the one featuring Danton. Another Robespierre monument was raised in Petrograd.
==Notes and references==
==Notes and references==