Title: Maximilien de Robespierre Biography - life, family, death, history, mother, information, born, time
Headings: Maximilien de Robespierre Biography
Maximilien de Robespierre Biography
Early life
Role in early revolution
Period in power
Downfall and execution
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Content: His ideas were seen as extreme: his belief in civil  liberty and equality, his refusal to compromise, and his anger toward  all authority won him little
Maximilien de Robespierre. Courtesy of the
Library of Congress
. support in the legislature. He favored giving the vote to all men, not  just property owners, and he opposed slavery in the colonies. Robespierre was more popular at meetings of a Paris club called the  Jacobins, whose members admired him and referred to him as "the  Incorruptible" because of his honesty and firm sense of right and  wrong. When Robespierre's term as a legislator ended in September 1791,  Robespierre remained in Paris, spending time at the Jacobins and  publishing a weekly political journal. During this period he was a  critic of King Louis XVI (1754–1793) and those who supported a  limited, constitutional monarchy (rule by a single person). Robespierre,  deeply suspicious of the king, spoke and wrote in opposition to the  course of events until August 1792, when the monarchy was overthrown and  the First French Republic was established. Period in power
A group of representatives was quickly elected to draft a constitution  and to govern the country in the meantime, and Robespierre was elected  to attend.