Robespierre lying on a wooden bench being interrogated by the Committee of Public Safety. Wood engraving.

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Maximilien-François-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794) was a radical Jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution. In the latter months of 1793 he came to dominate the Committee of Public Safety, the principal organ of the Revolutionary government during the Reign of Terror, but in 1794 he was overthrown and executed in the Thermidorian Reaction

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1 print : wood engraving ; image 12.3 x 10.8 cm

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The last hours of Robespierre in the Hall of the Committee of Public Safe[ty]

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Wellcome Collection 43506i

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