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The new state of Georgia was a member of the Second Continental Congress, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the tenth state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on July 24, 1778, [18] and the fourth state to be admitted to the Union under the U.S. Constitution, on January 2, 1788.
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (French: [maksimiljɛ̃ ʁɔbɛspjɛʁ]; 6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution.
As one of the prominent members of the Paris Commune, Robespierre was elected as a deputy to the National Convention in early September 1792. He joined the radical Montagnards, a
The arrest of Maximilien Robespierre and his allies showing at the centre of the image gendarme Merda firing at Robespierre (colour engraving by Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert after the painting by Fulchran-Jean Harriet, Carnavalet Museum) Other policies aimed at supporting the poor included price controls enacted by the Mountain in 1793.
Maximilien Robespierre. May 6. Maximilien de Robespierre, French revolutionary (d. 1794) [11] André Masséna, Napoleonic general, Marshal of France (d. 1817) May 8 – John Heath, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. 1810) May 15 – Thomas Taylor, English neoplatonist translator (d. 1835) May 17. Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English fossil ...
Closing of the Jacobin Club by Louis Legendre, in the early morning of 28 July 1794.Four days later it was reopened by him. [1]In the historiography of the French Revolution, the Thermidorian Reaction (French: Réaction thermidorienne or Convention thermidorienne, "Thermidorian Convention") is the common term for the period between the ousting of Maximilien Robespierre on 9 Thermidor II, or 27 ...
On 26/27 June, Robespierre demanded that Fouquier-Tinville, involved in the trial of Catherine Théot, be replaced as too bound to the Committee of General Security. [34] Fouquier-Tinville's career ended with the fall of Robespierre 9 Thermidor. When Robespierre and his supporters gathered that evening at the Hôtel de Ville, Fouquier-Tinville ...
Robespierre refused and demanded immediate discussion. At his insistence the entire decree was voted on, clause by clause. It passed. [5] The next day, 11 June, when Robespierre was absent, Bourdon de l'Oise and Merlin de Douai put forward an amendment proclaiming the inalienable right of the Convention to impeach its own members. The amendment ...