\b0 Born in 1758 at Arras in the north of France, Maximilien de Robespierre worked as a lawyer unt
il he was elected as a representative of the Third Estate at the States General in \b \ATXul1024 \cf4 \ATXht265 1789\b0 \ATXul0 \cf0 \ATXht0 . A staunch Republican, he voted for the king's death in 1792 and his influence was of prime importance in the cl
ub of the Jacobins and at the Convention. The following year, faced with external threats and troubles at home, he recommended the policy of the \i Terror\i0 to the Committee of Public Safety. But, growing more and more isolated in a France weary of the
excesses of the Revolution, he was arrested on Thermidor 9 of Year II (July 27, 1794) and guillotined the next day.\par