[[Image:Robespierre.jpg|thumb|Maximilien de Robespierre]]
[[Image:Robespierre.jpg|thumb|Maximilien de Robespierre]]
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'''Maximilien de Robespierre''' (1758-1794) was the head of the [[Committee of Public Safety]] in [[France]] at the time of the [[French Revolution]], leader of the [[Jacobins]] and sent to the [[guillotine]] numerous alleged enemies including King [[Louis XVI]] and Queen [[Marie Antoinette]]. Then Robespierre met the same fate himself: he was guillotined in 1794 after he gave a speech warning against the what he perceived to be government excesses and [[human rights]] violations. Robespierre's death ended the Reign of Terror.
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'''Maximilien de Robespierre''' (1758–1794) was the head of the [[Committee of Public Safety]] in [[France]] at the time of the [[French Revolution]], leader of the [[Jacobins]] and sent to the [[guillotine]] numerous alleged enemies including King [[Louis XVI]] and Queen [[Marie Antoinette]]. Then Robespierre met the same fate himself: he was guillotined in 1794 after he gave a speech warning against the what he perceived to be government excesses and [[human rights]] violations. Robespierre's death ended the Reign of Terror.