-- Maximilien Robespierre promised to usher a fairer, more representative form of government to the French people. Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. Noté /5. Reign of Terror The Reign of Terror (1793-1794) was a period in the French Revolution marked by a series of massacres and pubic execution that took place in an atmosphere marked by revolutionary fervour, anti-nobility sentiments and wild accusations of the Jacobin faction led by Maximilien Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety Maximilian Robespierre sentenced to death all those persons who he considered as enemies of the republic, whether they were ex-noble, clergy, and members of any political parties; including Jacobins. For the English he is the ‘sea-green incorruptible’ portrayed by Carlyle, the repellent figure at the head of the Revolution, who sent thousands of people to their death under the guillotine. Maximillian Robespierre has embarked on a real old-timey looking sailing boat from a port in the South of France, heading as fast as is humanly possible to the Northwestern United States where he… History - Chapter 18.5 Checkup - The Constitution of 1791 - The Execution of Louis XV - Robespierre and the Reign of Terror The impeachment proceedings resulted from a series of political scandals involving the Nixon administration that came to be ...read more, Adam John Walsh, age 6, is abducted from a mall in Hollywood, Florida, and later found murdered. He had been involved in the execution of many moderate Jacobins, and on July 27, 1794, in the Thermidorian Reaction, named after the French revolutionary month in which it happened, Robespierre and his leading aide, Louis- Antoine de Saint-Just, were both arrested and executed. He was against all forms of corruption and wanted to eliminate it from the French government and the republic. Some consider it to have begun only in 1793, giving the date as either 5 September, June or March, when the Revolutionary Tribunal came into existence. Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine. But chasing the secrets of interiority, by probing the conscience, the law of the suspects as the provisions of the Patriot Act, a provision of archetypal Reign of Terror, merges the two spheres, it means the sinking of the private into the public : everything, including the most intimate, must be in the public square. 2.) The Doctor, posing as a regional deputy, met Robespierre in a meeting with Lemaitre. Maximilien Robespierre has always provoked strong feelings. The next day, July 27, 1794, Robespierre came under verbal attack at the National Convention and an order was made to arrest Robespierre and his followers… In the National Convention, he emerged as the leader of the Mountain, as the Jacobin faction was known, and opposed the Girondins. [Footnote] Throughout the French revolution, specifically the eleven month, 1793-1794 Reign of Terror, revolutionary leaders, such as Maximilien Robespierre believed in … Achetez neuf ou d'occasion French Revolution: Timeline, Causes & Summary. At that time Robespierre followed a policy of severe control and punishment. Led by Robespierre, Reign of Terror during the French Revolution is famous for mass executions by the guillotine. However, by mid-1794, he had become a target of conspiraciesdue to his views but mostly because the members feared that they could be guillotined next. The Girondins were a branch of the Jacobins but they were conservatives and less radical. However, after the people of Paris rose up against the king in August 1792, Robespierre was elected to the insurrectionary Commune of Paris. Robespierre's Reign of Terror: Background information when reading Little. Cite this article as: Tim, "Robespierre and the Reign of Terror, June 12, 2012, " in.