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This led Robespierre, who had never previously done so, to question the monarchy. He declared "ni monarchiste ni républicain" ("neither monarchist nor republican"). This position of no longer supporting the King, but stopping short of supporting a Republic was not unusual at the time.
This led Robespierre, who had never previously done so, to question the monarchy. He declared "ni monarchiste ni républicain" ("neither monarchist nor republican"). This position of no longer supporting the King, but stopping short of supporting a Republic was not unusual at the time.
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>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050309031846/https://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 [[Bolshevik]]s, 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.
==Quotes==
*''"Only a democratic or republican government— these two words are synonyms despite the abuses in common speech—because an aristocracy is no closer than a monarchy to being a republic...Democracy is a state in which the sovereign people, guided by laws which are of their own making, do for themselves all that they can do well, and by their delegates do all that they cannot do for themselves...Now, what is the fundamental principle of popular or democratic government, that is to say, the essential mainspring which sustains it and makes it move? It is virtue. I speak of the public virtue which worked so many wonders in Greece and Rome and which ought to produce even more astonishing things in republican France—that virtue which is nothing other than the love of the nation and its laws. But the French are the first people of the world who have established real democracy, by calling all men to equality and full rights of citizenship; and there, in my judgment, is the true reason why all the tyrants in league against the Republic will be vanquished."''
*''"Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country."''
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