Robespierre: Committee of Public Safety (Dictator) (jul 25, 1793 – jul 25, 1794)

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Dictatorship under Robespierre

Institute "The Terror"

Start winning all the wars

Put out rebellions: by killing all people who could be against revolution using the Guillotine

* believed that greater good meant getting rid of all the "bad people"- a warped, more extreme version of Rousseau's ideas

Republic of Virtue: changing religion from Catholicism to the new goddess of reason- everything changed, even the calendar system


Decline of Robespierre
- reads out a list of threats of people whom he plans to kill the next day but does not reveal who
- people are all terrified: don't know if they could be on the list
- they overthrow Robespierre
- Robespierre tries to kill himself right after
- does not succeed- he is then killed by the Guillotine like all others whom he killed

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