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Maximilien de Robespierre (view source)
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This led Robespierre, who had never preiously 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 preiously 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 orchastrated the downfall of his political opponents the Girondins, and became the absolute leader of the French Revoutionary Government and the Terror. After declaring himself the head of the Cult of the Supreme Being (a sect of Christianity opposed to the Catholic Church) he was overthrown and executed during the Coup of Thermidor.
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