GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Louis XVI
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Robespierre
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Rousseau
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Marquis de Lafayette
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Detailed explanation-1: -Maximilien Robespierre came to dominate the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror . The Reign of Terror took place between September 5, 1793, and July 27, 1794. During the Terror, the committee exercised virtual dictatorial control over the French government.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Montagnards were radicals largely composed of Parisian bourgeoisie and the sansculottes (militants initially drawn from the poorer classes of Paris) and were led by the Jacobin Club of Paris.
Detailed explanation-3: -Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794) was a French lawyer who became one of the primary leaders of the French Revolution (1789-1799). From his initial rise to stardom in the Jacobin Club, Robespierre went on to dominate the powerful Committee of Public Safety and oversee the Reign of Terror.
Detailed explanation-4: -Royalists and priests led rebellions against the government. The sans-culottes demanded relief from food shortages and inflation.