#OnThisDay in 1814, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin's funeral was held; he invented the guillotine as a humane alternative to the gallows, but ironically, it only enabled Maximilien Robespierre to enormously increase the number of people executed during the #TerreurBlanche:
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Maximilien Robespierre
#OnThisDay in 1794, #MaximilienRobespierre, the architect of the #FrenchRevolution's Reign of Terror, was overthrown & arrested by the National Convention; he was responsible for sending 17,000 people to the guillotine during the #TerreurBlanche...
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#CharlotteCorday assassinated #JeanPaulMarat #OnThisDay in 1793 at the height of the French Revolution, hoping to bring the #TerreurBlanche in #France to an end; Jacques-Louis David turned him into a secular saint with his painting depicting "La Mort de Marat":
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Robespierre
Robespierre meme
#MaximilienRobespierre was born #OnThisDay in 1758, rising to supreme power in France as the head of the Committee of Public Safety during the #FrenchRevolution & launching the #TerreurBlanche (the White Terror), which ultimately consumed Robespierre himself...
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Maximilien Robespierre
headed Committee of Public Safety; beheaded by Committee of Public Safety
#MaximilienRobespierre was born #OnThisDay in 1758, rising to supreme power in #France during the #FrenchRevolution & launching the #TerreurBlanche (the White Terror), which ultimately consumed Robespierre himself; there are lessons in this #history...
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Camille Desmoulins biography by Pascal Wilhelm
#CamilleDesmoulines was born #OnThisDay in 1760. Maximilien Robespierre sent him to the guillotine in the #TerreurBlanche in the #FrenchRevolution, dramatized in "La #RévolutionFrançaise," which is available in its entirety on YouTube:
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