Fall of Maximilien Robespierre facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Coup of 9–10 Thermidor |
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Part of the French Revolution | |||||||
Fall of Robespierre in the Convention by Max Adamo |
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Belligerents | |||||||
Thermidorians
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Jacobins
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Unknown | c. 3,000 loyalists | ||||||
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Various people were executed:
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The Coup d'état of 9 Thermidor or the Fall of Maximilien Robespierre is the series of events beginning with Maximilien Robespierre's address to the National Convention on 8 Thermidor Year II (26 July 1794), his arrest the next day, and his execution on 10 Thermidor Year II (28 July 1794). In the speech of 8 Thermidor, Robespierre spoke of the existence of internal enemies, conspirators, and calumniators, within the Convention and the governing Committees. He refused to name them, which alarmed the deputies who feared Robespierre was preparing another purge of the Convention.
On the following day, this tension in the Convention allowed Jean-Lambert Tallien, one of the conspirators whom Robespierre had in mind in his denunciation, to turn the Convention against Robespierre and decree his arrest. By the end of the next day, Robespierre was executed in the Place de la Revolution, where King Louis XVI had been executed a year earlier. He was executed by guillotine, like the others.
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In Spanish: Caída de Robespierre para niños