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Content: But as the revolution approached, Robespierre became head of the powerful
      Jacobin Club, a radical group advocating exile or death for France's nobility. In 1792, after Paris mobs stormed the palace of the Tuileries and dethroned
      King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, Robespierre helped organize
      the new revolutionary governing body, the Commune of Paris. Robespierre now developed great love for power along with a reputation
      for intolerance, self-righteousness and cruelty. He used his considerable oratory skills to successfully demand the execution
      of the king and queen, saying Louis XVI "must die that the country
      may live." In January 1793, the king was executed, followed ten months
      later by the queen. The Committee of Public Safety then took over the rule of France and
      began a three year Reign of Terror during which it brutally put down royalist
      uprisings, conducted wholesale murder of families with royal ancestry and
      sent thousands to the guillotines without proper trials. At one point during the Reign of Terror, Robespierre sent an atheist,
      Jacques-Rene Hebert, to the guillotine after Hebert had closed the Catholic
      churches and started pagan-style worship of the goddess of Reason. Robespierre
      then introduced the Reign of Virtue and the Festival of the Supreme Being,
      from which the speech below is taken. Not long after this speech, Robespierre himself was arrested by his
      political enemies. A rescue attempt followed, during which part of his
      jaw was shot off.