no.
Or:
Yes, he is the only person thought to have faced the National Razor face up.
He was executed by the guillotine on 28 July 1794, without trial.
That was Maximilien-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre.
Main reasons: * CGS and CPS against Robespierre * Robespierre lost support of Sans-Culottes by executing main leaders, disbanding armless revolutionaries. * Prior supporters turned against Terror - Danton * Growing extremism, even though war improved
He opposed King Louis. He sent him to be executed using the guillotine.
No, it was the moderates who felt that he had gone to far with the Reign of Terror.
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre was executed on the 28th July, 1794 in the Place de la Revolution, Paris along with Louis Saint-Just and Georges Couston as well as nineteen others. The crowd cried "Down with the tyrant!" as he was about to be executed. It is belived Robespierre is the only person to have been executed by the guillotine face up so he could see the blade approaching.
The arrest and execution of Robespierre ended the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution and started the Thermidorians.
Robespierre.
july of 1794
He was executed by the guillotine on 28 July 1794, without trial.
He was executed by the guillotine on 28 July 1794, without trial.
the French Revolution, 1789 - 1799
The Reign of Terror.
He was executed by the guillotine.
The date is July 27, 1794.
Louis XVI was executed on the 21st of January 1793. Robespierre was executed on the 28th of July 1794. So there were just over 18 months between the two executions.