# Maximilien Robespierre

> The architect of the Reign of Terror who sent thousands to the guillotine in the name of revolutionary virtue — before the revolution devoured him. His ten months on the Committee of Public Safety redefined political violence as moral duty, and his name still splits historians between monster and idealist.

*French revolutionary lawyer and politician (1758–1794)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Activist
- **Category:** Activists
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1758-05-06
- **Died:** 1794-07-28
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Maximilien Robespierre was a French lawyer who rose through the Revolution on principle: he fought for universal male suffrage, the abolition of the slave trade, and the right of common citizens to bear arms. Elected to the National Convention in September 1792, he became a radical Jacobin leader, and by July 1793 sat on the Committee of Public Safety. Disillusionment with fellow revolutionaries drove him to justify the harsh measures of the Terror — summary trials, mass executions, the machinery of virtue enforced at knifepoint. The Convention turned on him. On 9 Thermidor, he was arrested and guillotined the next day without trial, along with around 90 others. His legacy remains bitterly contested: a man of progressive vision whose methods became the template for revolutionary repression.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 74.5 / 100
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- **Now attention:** 13.7 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #172
- **Category rank:** #12

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## Topics
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- [Wikiquote](https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maksimillian_Robespyer)
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