The execution of Maximilien de Robespierre at the guillotine
Immediately after his fall, on Thermidor 9, Year II (July 27, 1794), Maximilien de Robespierre, declared an outlaw, was executed without trial on Thermidor 10 (July 28). He was brought in a cart to the Place de la Révolution (former name of the Place de la Concorde) in the company of 21 of his supporters, including his brother and Saint-Just, to be guillotined there
Execution of Robespierre and his conspirators against freedom and equality: Long live the National Convention that by its energy and supervision has issued the Republic of its tyrants
This English engraving stigmatizes Robespierre, depicted without his jaw injury, as a coward hypocrite unable to lead with dignity during his execution,
"Beast to the barks blocking his foot against an amount of the machine and clinging to the board to try with the energy of despair to cling to life "Beast to the barks blocking his foot against an amount of the machine and clinging to the board to try with the energy of despair to cling to life engraved by Giacomo Aliprandi according to a drawing of Giacomo Beys, Paris, estampes department , vers 1799
Adrien – Nicolas Goreau, 53, a member of the Commune, was executed first. When it was the turn of St. Just to ride, he kissed Georges Couthon, and as he walked past Robespierre, he said to him, "Goodbye." Maximilian of Robespierre was executed as a penultimate, the last one was Fleuriot-Lescot. When an aider of the executioner suddenly arrayed the cloths that supported his jaw, Robespierre let out a cry of pain. He was placed on the toggle and cut it down. Robespierre's head was shown to the people, with applause
The twenty-two heads were placed in a wooden chest, the bodies being collected on a cart which headed for the Errancis cemetery (opened in March 1794). The heads and trunks were thrown into a common grave and quicklime was spread so that the body of Maximilien de Robespierre left no trace
After these first executions, raids were carried out in the capital among the members of the General Council of the Commune and the municipal employees. On 11 Thermidor (29 July), the bloodiest day, 71 people were guillotined and 12 people were guillotined on 12 (30 July). After having managed to flee from the town hall and hide for several days, Jean-Baptiste Coffinhal ended up being denounced and arrested. After the verification of his identity by the revolutionary tribunal, he was guillotined on 18 Thermidor (August 5) On Fructidor 5 (August 22), François-Pierre Deschamps, Hanriot's aide-de-camp, was in turn guillotined
On 15 Fructidor (September 1), forty-four members of the Parisian sections who had taken part in 9 Thermidor alongside the Commune were brought before the revolutionary tribunal[6]. Among them, Henri Sanson and his uncle, Pierre-Claude, captain and lieutenant of gunners, are accused of having entered the general security committee following Coffinhal and freed Hanriot, but they are acquitted
Only Joseph-Julien Lemonnier, lemonade merchant, civil commissioner of the Maison-Commune section, born in 1756 in Paris, was sentenced to death and executed the same day
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