Robespierre And the Reign Of Terror

The reign of terror was a period of violence that occurred fifteen months after the onset of the french revolution. Many people where killed during this period, from numbers ranging from 16,000 to 40,000. Out of all these people, about 8 percent was aristocrats, 6 percent clergy, 14 percent middle class and 70 percent peasants and workers. The way that people died during the Reign of terror was with the Guillotine.A instrument that cuts of the head of people very quickly. King Louis the 16Th was killed this way. Maximilian Robespierre was a great influence during the reign of terror. He was instrumental in the period of the revolution and the reign of terror which he ended followed with his arrest and his death.

Robespierre believed that the Terror was a time of discovering and revealing the enemy within Paris, within France, the enemy that hid in the safety of apparent patriotism.On July 24 1794,Robespierre was accused of tyranny, barred from speaking at the National Convention, and was placed under arrest along with several key supporters. Althouth these captives were later rescued by the soldiers loyal to the commune of paris, the convention later ordered the National Guard to move to re-capture Robespierre who subsquently recieved a bullet shot to his lower jaw. On July 28Th Robespierre and with his closests companions