15h 3min, jul 28, 1794 y - Robespierre is executed
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Robespierre was guillotined without trial in the Place de la Révolution. His brother Augustin, Couthon, Saint-Just, Hanriot, and twelve other followers, among them the cobbler Antoine Simon, the jailor of Louis-Charles, Dauphin of France, were also executed.
Both the peasants and nobles would have been thrilled by this.
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15h 3min, jul 28, 1794 y
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