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The prisoners were taken to the Conciergerie prison, while a hastily summoned meeting of the Revolutionary Tribunal sentenced all the survivors and twelve others to death. Late on the afternoon of the 28th, the condemned were escorted to the Place de la Révolution and guillotined. According to historian Simon Schama, the scene "was particularly gruesome, like some mad exorcism of horror." Saint-Just went to his death quietly and with dignity, but the other leading Jacobins died in agony, with Couthon and Hanriot having to be strapped to a plank and pushed underneath the blade. Robespierre's jaw had been bandaged that morning, but the executioner tore it away at the last moment, producing painful screams from Robespierre before the blade silenced him.
The prisoners were taken to the Conciergerie prison, while a hastily summoned meeting of the Revolutionary Tribunal sentenced all the survivors and twelve others to death. Late on the afternoon of the 28th, the condemned were escorted to the Place de la Révolution and guillotined. According to historian Simon Schama, the scene "was particularly gruesome, like some mad exorcism of horror." Saint-Just went to his death quietly and with dignity, but the other leading Jacobins died in agony, with Couthon and Hanriot having to be strapped to a plank and pushed underneath the blade. Robespierre's jaw had been bandaged that morning, but the executioner tore it away at the last moment, producing painful screams from Robespierre before the blade silenced him.
'''Aftermath'''
On July 29 and 30 (11 and 12 Thermidor), another eighty-three Jacobins, mostly members of the Paris Commune, who were associated with Robespierre were executed. Others were imprisoned, including [[Jacques-Louis David]], the famed revolutionary painter, while many who were already in prison on charges associated with the Terror were released. In the midst of the coup, the Convention had ordered a halt to the executions (apart from its own purge of the Robespierre faction), with the final victims of the Terror being guillotined during the night of July 27-28.
As the Terror was brought to an end, the new leadership within the Convention sought to pin responsibility for it on a few individuals, Robespierre in particular but also those who had directly aided in its operations. The prosecutor for the Revolutionary Tribunal, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, who had zealously orchestrated the execution of entire families during the Terror, was especially singled out; he was arrested in August 1794 and, despite defending himself as a loyal public servant who had merely obeyed his orders (a forerunner of the defense many [[Nazi]] members would use at the [[Nuremberg Trials]]), was condemned and guillotined in May 1795.
== Ending the Terror ==
== Ending the Terror ==