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Robespierre Was Shot: Rescued by the national guards under Francois Hanriot and brought to the Hotel de Ville, Robespierre showed no capacity for action. The Convention placed him outside the law and dispatched a portion of the national guard under Paul Nicolas de Barras against him. In the assault Robespierre was shot in the jaw by a gendarme and taken in a pitiful condition to prison. On the following day he was brought before the revolutionary tribunal and with Couthon, Saint-Just, and others of his followers was sent to the guillotine.
The condemnation if Louis XVI was a triumph for Robespierre, irho, however, did not cease from his attacks on he Girondists. The struggle became one of life nd death. In April, Robespierre denounced them a the body of the Convention, and on the fate-ill days of May 31 and June 2 the destruction f the party was accomplished with the aid of le Parisian mob. See GIRONDIST. [ In July 1793, Robespierre was made a mem-tr of the Committee of Public Safety, which >r a year was to be the virtual ruler of France, b curb dissension at home, so as to present a nited front to the foreign foes of the country, le committee organized the Terror, with which le name of Robespierre has become, through legend, synonymous.
Besides, it became apparent that the excesses of the Terror could not go on and that reparation would be demanded Accordingly Robespierre was chosen as the scapegoat of the committee. The attack on Robespierre began June 17, when Marc Guillaumo Albert Vadier, a member of the Committee of General Security, satirized him before the convention. Instead of joining battle, as he was urged to do, Robespierre went into retirement for more than a month to prepare his defense. On July 26, he appeared in the Convention and declared that the Terror should cease and that the committees of Public Safety and General Security should be reorganized. |
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