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Jacques Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Maximilien de Robespierre, and Louis de Saint-Just all had critical leadership roles in bringing about and carrying out the French Revolution. Danton observed, "La révolution dévore ses enfants" [The revolution eats up its children]. And all four indeed had lost their heads by the time the revolution ended.
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Was Robespierre a liberal?
Yes. Robespierre did suporrt the revoltion. in fact, he was the head of the revolution.
King whose head was chopped off in the French Revolution?
King Louis XVI
Who was the youngest person to be guillotined during the French Revolution?
The youngest person to be guillotined during the French Revolution was Marie-Antoinette's son, Louis-Charles, also known as Louis XVII. He was only 10 years old when he died in captivity in 1795. Louis-Charles was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror and ultimately perished due to neglect and mistreatment while in custody.
What is a bloody period of the French Revolution?
The storming of the Bastille was particularly gruesome. It was during this event that the act of decapitating someone and putting their head on a pike, then parading it around the town square became popular.The guillotine was invented shortly thereafter, and was used frequently in the days and months after the Bastille had been stormed.The entire revolution was pretty bloody, really.
How was Maximilien Robespierre involved with the revolution?
Maximillien Robespierre, nicknamed "the Incorruptible", was the leader of the Jacobins who took over the leadership of France during the French Revolution. He and the other committee members ordered the execution of the King, Louis XVI for treason in January 1793. Robespierre, as an enlightened thinker, brought revolutionary ideas of equality, liberty and fraternity to the minds of the French people already put under pressure by poverty, exacerbated by an incapable king and an exorbitant queen. During the revolution, he also made France a secluar state. He attempted to re-name the months of the year and make 1794 the first year of French history. This did not catch on though, and his attempt to institute a new "festival of the saint" was also unsucessful. While it is true that Robespierre allowed the death of thousands of French persons-men, women and children- during the course of the revolution, he also paved the way for the rise of a republic France, as opposed to a monarchy. In addition, his unseating of the monarchy led to the power of Napoleon Bonaparte who aided in developing France's politics under a system of centralisation. Robespierre died in 1794, the final victim of the revolution- taken by the guillotine to which he had sent thousands.
