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# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:40:36.361Z

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description: "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."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.