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5 Surprising Facts about Robespierre
5 Surprising Facts about Robespierre
1. Robespierre did not agree with the death penalty
2. Robespierre was never officially head of state
3. He let his best friend Camille Desmoulins be guillotined
4. Robespierre wanted to start a cult
5. Robespierre became the scapegoat for his colleagues
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Content: His ideas were similar to those of Robespierre for a long time and he shared some responsibility in the elimination of the Girondins and the death of the king Louis the XVI. However, in march 1794, along with Danton, the rival of Robespierre within the Montagnards, he asks for the end of the Terror and the overuse of the guillotine. Along with his partner they had the nickname of “Indulgents”. But Robespierre and his followers believed that it was too soon to abolish this state of exception. Robespierre warned Desmoulins several times and ask him to stop, meanwhile their friendship was disappearing because of this political opposition. Criticized by the “Indulgents”, the friends of Robespierre replied by accusing Desmoulins and Danton of betraying the Revolution. Saint-Just, the henchman of Robespierre in the Committee of Public Safety, put them under accusation seemingly without reaction of Robespierre. Saint-Just painted by Pierre-Paul Prud’hon. Sourced from Wikipedia
Deprived from the support of the only one who could have saved him, a crying Desmoulins was brought to the guillotine, quickly followed by his wife, the 5 th of April 1794. 4.