Follow Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre through 197 dated historical records for France.
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The Jacobins will hold power until the summer of 1794, and they repeatedly purged the Convention of those they held disloyal to the Republic, ending with a widespread program of execution, the Reign of Terror in their last months
Role range: 1789-1792
The Jacobins will hold power until the summer of 1794, and they repeatedly purged the Convention of those they held disloyal to the Republic, ending with a widespread program of execution, the Reign of Terror in their last months.
Role range: 1789-1792
Robespierre promoted a Republic of Virtue while Jacobin rule intensified repression before his overthrow on 9 Thermidor.
Role range: 1789-1792
The Jacobins will hold power until the summer of 1794, and they repeatedly purged the Convention of those they held disloyal to the Republic, ending with a widespread program of execution, the Reign of Terror in their last months. Robespierre tries to found the Republic of Virtue, until the Jacobins last purge, 9 Thermidor, in July 1794, executed Robespierre himself
Role range: 1789-1792
Appointed President of the Committee of Public Safety
Role range: 1793-1794
Appointed President of the Committee of Public Safety
Role range: 1793-1794
Robespierre joined the Committee of Public Safety as wartime government became increasingly centralized. His association with the Jacobins gave the club a prominent connection to executive authority.
Role range: 1793-1799
The Committee is already entering a more powerful and active phase, which would see it become a de facto dictatorship alongside its similarly powerful partner, the Committee of General Security
Role range: 1789-1792
The Committee is already entering a more powerful and active phase, which would see it become a de facto dictatorship alongside its similarly powerful partner, the Committee of General Security.
Role range: 1789-1792
Robespierre joined the Committee of Public Safety as it expanded control over wartime policy, the Terror and the levee en masse.
Role range: 1789-1792
The Committee is responsible for interpreting and applying the decrees of the National Convention, and thus for implementing some of the most stringent policies of the Terror & the levee en masse. The Committee is already entering a more powerful and active phase, which would see it become a de facto dictatorship alongside its similarly powerful partner, the Committee of General Security. Maximilien Robespierre is elected to the Committee
Role range: 1789-1792
Robespierre joins the Committee of Public Safety while Jacobin influence over revolutionary government increases
Role range: 1789-1795
Robespierre joins the Committee of Public Safety while Jacobin influence over revolutionary government increases.
Role range: 1789-1795
The Committee is responsible for interpreting and applying the decrees of the National Convention, and thus for implementing some of the most stringent policies of the Terror & the levee en masse
Role range: 1789-1792
The Committee is responsible for interpreting and applying the decrees of the National Convention, and thus for implementing some of the most stringent policies of the Terror and the levee en masse.
Role range: 1789-1792
Appointed President of the Committee of Public Safety
Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1794
Appointed President of the Committee of Public Safety
Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1794
The Decree for the Levee en Masse is made
Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1794
The Decree for the Levee en Masse is made.
Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1794
Popular pressure places terror on the order of the day as Jacobin dominated government confronts war and revolt
Role range: 1789-1795
Popular pressure places terror on the order of the day as Jacobin dominated government confronts war and revolt.
Role range: 1789-1795
The broad and centralized powers of the Committee are codified by the Law of 14 Frimaire (also known as the Law of Revolutionary Government)
Role range: 1789-1792
The broad and centralized powers of the Committee are codified by the Law of 14 Frimaire (also known as the Law of Revolutionary Government).
Role range: 1789-1792
The broad and centralized powers of the Committee are codified by the Law of 14 Frimaire (also known as the Law of Revolutionary Government)
Role range: 1789-1792
The Law of 14 Frimaire centralises revolutionary government under the Convention and its committees
Role range: 1789-1795
The Law of 14 Frimaire centralises revolutionary government under the Convention and its committees.
Role range: 1789-1795
Robespierre argued that republican institutions must resist enemies within France while maintaining a moral justification for emergency political power.
Role range: 1789-1799
Robespierre rejected militant attacks on religious belief that he thought damaged the revolutionary cause. Disagreement over dechristianization sharpened the conflict with radical activists.
Role range: 1793-1799
Robespierre defended extraordinary measures as France faced external war and internal rebellion. The club became a crucial forum for advocating revolutionary government.
Role range: 1793-1799
Robespierre linked republican government with civic virtue in a major report on political morality.
Role range: 1793-1799
The Paris commune is reorganized, Hebertists are replaced by supporters of Robespierre
Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1794
The Paris commune is reorganized, Hebertists are replaced by supporters of Robespierre.
Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1794
Robespierre presents a report linking republican morality with belief in a Supreme Being, and the Convention adopts a civic religious program.
Role range: 1789-1799
Robespierre presented the report that led the Convention to recognize the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul.
Role range: 1793-1799
Robespierre survived an assassination attempt.
Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1794
Robespierre survived an assassination attempt by Cecile Renault.
Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1794
Robespierre became president of the National Convention shortly before the Festival of the Supreme Being.
Role range: 1793-1799
Robespierre presided over the Festival of the Supreme Being as part of a program of civic morality. Critics viewed the ceremony with suspicion amid factional rivalries.
Role range: 1793-1799
Appointed High Priest for a festival of the supreme being
Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1794
Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre was appointed High Priest for a festival of the supreme being.
Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1794
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