1793Execution of Philippe Égalité

November 7: Philippe Égalité is guillotined.
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1794

🔪 Marat Calls for Mass Execution of Aristocrats

July 26: Marat publishes a demand for the immediate execution of five to six hundred aristocrats to save the Revolution.
French RevolutionMaratReign of TerrorViolenceRadicalismExecutionPolitical ViolenceAristocracyJacobinsRevolutionary Press

🔪 Execution of Philippe Égalité

November 7: Philippe Égalité is guillotined.
Execution of Philippe Égalité (1793)
French RevolutionGuillotineExecutionPolitical PurgeÉgalitéTerrorJacobinsAristocracyViolenceRepression

🔪 Girondin Deputies Executed by Guillotine

October 31: The 21 Girondins deputies are guillotined.
French RevolutionReign of TerrorGuillotineGirondinsPolitical PurgeExecutionRadicalismViolenceFactionalismAtrocity

✒️ André Chénier's Execution by Guillotine

July 25: The poet André Chénier is among those guillotined.
André Chénier's Execution by Guillotine (1794)
French RevolutionExecutionGuillotinePoetryLiteratureAndré ChénierTerrorVictims of the TerrorPolitical Repression

🔪 Execution of Robespierre and Allies

July 28: At two in the morning, soldiers loyal to the Convention take the Hôtel de Ville without a fight. Robespierre is wounded in the jaw by a gunshot, either from a gendarme or self-inflicted. His brother is badly injured jumping from the window. In the morning, Robespierre and his supporters are taken to the Revolutionary Tribunal for formal identification. Since they have been declared outside the law, no trial is considered necessary. In the evening of July 28, Robespierre and his supporters, including his brother, Saint-Just, Couthon and Hanriot, 22 in all, are guillotined.
French RevolutionReign of TerrorGuillotineExecutionRobespierreSaint-JustPolitical PurgeHôtel de VilleThermidorian Reaction

🔪 Mass Execution of Robespierrists

July 29: Arrest and execution of seventy allies of Robespierre within the Paris Commune. In all, 106 Robespierrists are guillotined.
French RevolutionReign of TerrorGuillotineExecutionRobespierreParis CommunePolitical PurgeAtrocityViolence