No figure of the French Revolution has aroused so much controversy as that of Maximilien Robespierre. He is known to most people as the symbol of the Reign of Terror, a short but horrifying period where approximately 17,000 people died in prison in horrible conditions or were executed on the simple thought of being a traitor by such inventions as the guillotine.
He was born to Francois Robespierre in the spring of 1758 and received and education at the local college in Arras, France, his place of birth. Maximilien being such an intelligen
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