National Assembly Dissolved: Parisians Hail Robespierre
They carried Robespierre through the streets of Paris on their shoulders. The crowd called him incorruptible — and he believed them. The National Constituent Assembly had just dissolved itself after two years reshaping France, and Robespierre, who'd argued passionately against the death penalty just months before, was the crowd's hero. Within three years he'd overseen the execution of roughly 17,000 people during the Terror. The man they cheered as incorruptible would be guillotined by his own colleagues in 1794.
September 30, 1791
235 years ago
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