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Content: In a cruel twist of fate, many of the revolutionists that ordered the king, queen and other French noble to death by guillotine met the same fate in the tumultuous final days of the Reign of Terror. Thanks to paranoia and greed for power, some of the founders of the Revolution were sent to their deaths: Georges Danton: a revolutionist who was tried for conspiracy, corruption and theft in 1794. Danton created his own faction of revolutionaries called the Dantonists, and Maximilian Robespierre accused him of putting his own personal interests above those of the new French nation. He was killed by guillotine in April 1794. Maximilian Robespierre: Robespierre was one of the major players in the French Revolution, and he also played a major role in the Reign of Terror. He had some good ideas (like the abolition of slavery), but he went about achieving them through really violent measures. Things came to a head for Robespierre when he addressed the National Convention in July 1794, and was essentially booed off the stage for his paranoid speech that blamed many revolutionaries of conspiring against him.