5 Jul 1793 Jahr - Maximilian Robespierre and the Reign of Terror

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1793-1794: a Jacobin who is the "incorruptible" leader of the Committee of Public Safety; he kills people all the time and proposes the "cult of reason" instead of Christianity; he reorganizes calendar; Reign of Terror ends when he is beheaded in July of 1794

Committee of Public Safety: job was to make people safe during radical times but it did the opposite; believed in science over religion

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