Arrest and execution of Robespierre; End of the Terror.

End of the Terror: Execution of Robespierre.

In the evening of July 28, Robespierre and about 150 of his supporters, including his brother, Saint-Just, Couthon, and Hanriot, were guillotined. Their executioners attribute to them the excesses of the Revolution, the better to clear themselves of it.

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