MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Marie Antoinette was executed.
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Louis XVI was executed.
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Marat was murdered in his bath.
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Robespierre was executed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In July 1794 Robespierre was arrested and executed as were many of his fellow Jacobins, thereby ending the Reign of Terror, which was succeeded by the Thermidorian Reaction.
Detailed explanation-2: -On July 27, 1794, Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. The next day Robespierre and 21 of his followers were taken to the Place de la Révolution (now the Place de la Concorde), where they were executed by guillotine before a cheering crowd.
Detailed explanation-3: -Robespierre, the leader of the Jacobin club, used a revolutionary tribunal to arrest people who seemed to be against the republic nation. They were guillotined, when found guilty. Ex-nobles and clergymen, members of political parties and his own party’s dissenters were targeted.