The execution of Maximilien de Robespierre at the guillotine
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 mac...