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Robespierre was the best
known and most influential of the members of the Committee of
Public safety. He was rasied in Arras, but attended grammer school
in Paris. His best friend during his school years was Camille Desmoulins, another prominent figure in the
Revolution. Robespierre was a presence in all of the major events
that occurred between 1789-1794. He was a representatvie at the
Estates General, and had a large following in
the radical Jacobin clubs of Paris and among the Sans-Culottes. During the reign of Terror, Robespierre was the most prominent
member of the Commitee of Public Safety. He was a hard worker
with strong principles, and he became known as the Incorruptible
because of his honesty and rigid commitment to transforming France
into a republic of Virtue. He was a cold man however, and was
never as popular amoung the people of Paris as Marat,
Desmoulins, or Danton. He believed more in the ideas
of Rousseau than in men, and was suspicious of those around him.
(Dowd, 124). The fact that Robespierre allowed his two close associates to be killed in April of 1794, he lost the faith of the rest of France's governing body (Spielvogel, 696). Eager to destroy him before he destroyed them, members of the Convention arrested Robespierre and guillotined him on 28 July 1794. His death brought to an end the radical period of the French revolution known as the Terror.
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