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: 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. As a spokesman for the Jacobins in the National Convention,  he was a harsh critic of the king, who was finally placed on trial,  convicted, and executed in January 1793. In the months that followed  Robespierre turned his anger on a group of moderates (those who prefer  less abrupt change) called the Girondins, leading the effort to have  their members removed from the convention, arrested, and executed. In July 1793 Robespierre was elected to the Committee of Public Safety,  which acted to protect the republic during the dual problems of foreign  war (most of Europe was fighting against the Revolutionary government in  France) and civil war (which threatened to bring down that government). It executed people who were suspected of supporting the king or making  plans to take over the government. Thousands were put to death with a  quick trial or no trial at all.