Maximilian Robespierre

Maximilian Robespierre

1. Born in Arras May 6th 1758

   • Education
     • Read and write
       • Lawyer
     • Collage in Paris (scholarship)
       • Gave speech to king Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette
         • King and queen did not leave carriage and left straight after speech

2. 1789

   • Elected to represent 3rd estate at the meeting of the estates general
     • Third estate locked out of meeting
       • Member of National Assembly
         • Member of jacobins
           • Radical party
             • Wanted Quick change
               • We're not afraid to use violence

3. 1793

   • Kings death flight to Varennes
     • Jacobins came to power
       • Committee of public safety set up to keep revolution safe from outside forces
         • Leader of committee of public safety

4. Reign of terror

   • Conscription
   • Laws
     • Law of maximum
     • Law of suspects
   • High death rate
     • Killed his own followers
       • Followers turned on him
         • Guillotined robespierre
           • End of reign of terror
           • Killed him because even when revolution was safe he continued to guillotine people underage law of suspects