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[2] [3] By the end of the next day, Robespierre was executed in the Place de la Révolution, where King Louis XVI had been executed a year earlier. He was executed by guillotine, like the others. [4] Robespierre's fall led to more moderate policies being implemented during the subsequent Thermidorian Reaction.
Two major events that led to the downfall of Robespierre were the Festival of the Supreme Being, which gave many the perception that Robespierre aspired to dictatorship, and the Law of 22 Prairial, which made powerful revolutionary leaders scared for their own lives.
Robespierre faced growing disillusionment among others due in part to the politically-motivated violence advocated by the Montagnards. Increasingly, members of the Convention turned against him, and accusations piled up on 9 Thermidor. Robespierre was arrested and taken to a prison.
Maximilien Robespierre lost his head—literally. On July 27, 1794, Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. The next day Robespierre and 21 of his followers were taken to the Place de la Révolution (now the Place de la Concorde), where they were executed by guillotine before a cheering crowd.
The day after his arrest, Robespierre and 21 of his followers were guillotined before a cheering mob in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. Maximilien Robespierre was born in Arras, France, in...
Maximilien Robespierre lost his head—literally. On July 27, 1794, Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. The next day Robespierre and 21 of his followers were taken to the Place de la Révolution (now the Place de la Concorde), where they were executed by guillotine before a cheering crowd.
Jacques-Joseph Cassanyes was a National Convention deputy who participated in the overthrow of Robespierre. Here he describes Robespierre's execution.
When Robespierre returned in late July he attempted to defend himself, however, the numbers in the Convention were now against him. Robespierre and his supporters were arrested, tried and guillotined on July 28th (10 Thermidor).
Having carried the day in the Jacobin Club, Robespierre rose to speak the next day in the Convention, where he attacked members of the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security, until now his closest collaborators, for their extreme use of the Terror.
Condemned to death, Robespierre was executed alongside 21 of his closest allies, including Saint-Just and his brother Augustin; when it was Robespierre's turn to die, the executioner ripped off his bandages, causing him to utter an agonized scream that was only silenced when the blade fell.