jul 5, 1793 - 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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Chapter 28
Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World
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