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Between 1787 and 1789 Robespierre lived in this house, now on Rue Maximilien de Robespierre. During his three-year study of law at the Sorbonne, Robespierre distinguished himself academically, culminating in his graduation in July 1780, where he received a special prize of 600 livres for his exceptional academic achievements and exemplary ...
The Cult of the Supreme Being (French: Culte de l'Être suprême) [note 1] was a form of theocratic deism established by Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution as the intended state religion of France and a replacement for its rival, the Cult of Reason, and of Roman Catholicism.
On 27 July 1793, Robespierre was elected to the Committee of Public Safety, and would remain a member until his death. [5] During the months between September 1793 and July 1794, the Committee's power increased dramatically due to several measures instated during the Terror, such as the Law of Suspects, and the later Law of 14th Frimaire, becoming the de facto executive branch of the ...
On 20 May, Robespierre signed Theresa Cabarrus's arrest warrant, and on 23 May, following an attempted assassination on Collot d'Herbois, Cécile Renault was arrested near Robespierre's residence with two penknives and a change of underwear claiming the fresh linen was for her execution. [68] She was executed on 17 June. [69] [70] [71]
Maximilien Robespierre (July 28, 1794) Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (July 28, 1794) Georges Couthon (July 28, 1794) Antoine Simon (July 28, 1794) Famous others: Charles-Gilbert Romme (May 20, 1795), after committing suicide, before he could be guillotined. He was a mathematician who is regarded as the father of the Revolutionary calendar.
On 19 February 1794, Maximilien decided therefore to return to the Duplays. Courtyard of the house of Maurice Duplay, Robespierre's landlord. Robespierre's residence was on the second floor. On 9 Thermidor members of the family Duplay were arrested and at four taken to Sainte-Pélagie Prison. [9]
Upon Maximilien Robespierre's motion, it decreed that none of its members would be eligible for the next legislature. Its successor body, the Legislative Assembly, operating over the liberal French Constitution of 1791 , lasted until 20 September 1792 when the National Convention was established after the insurrection of 10 August just the ...
The undermined state of the Left Bank was known to architects as early 17th-century construction of the Val-de-Grâce hospital (most of its building expenses were due to its foundations), but a series of mine cave-ins beginning 1774 with the collapse of a house along the "rue d'Enfer" (near today's crossing of the Avenue Denfert-Rochereau and ...