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Robespierre
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Robes·pierre  (rbzpîr, -p-âr, rô-bs-pyr), Maximilien François Marie Isidore de 1758-1794.
French revolutionary. Leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror, he was known as an austere and incorruptible man. His laws permitting the confiscation of property and arrest of suspected traitors, many of whom were guillotined, led to his own arrest and execution without trial.
Robespierre [ˈrəʊbzpjɛə (French) rɔbzpjɛr]
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(Biographies / Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de (1758-1794) M, French, POLITICS: revolutionary, POLITICS: statesman) Maximilien François Marie Isidore de. (maksimiljɛ̃ frɑ̃swa mari izidɔr də). 1758-94, French revolutionary and Jacobin leader: established the Reign of Terror as a member of the Committee of Public Safety (1793-94): executed in the coup d'état of Thermidor (1794)
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Noun1.Robespierre - French revolutionaryRobespierre - French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'etat (1758-1794)
Maxmillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre
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1794: Maximilien Robespierre, one of the leaders of the French Revolution, was guillotined in Paris.
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During the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre spent a year heading the Committee of Public Safety which, without a hint of irony, was in charge of slaughtering people.
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