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You are right!. Robespierre had become more of a threat to his own followers than to the Aristocrats etc!. He began to see anti-revolutionists in his own circle and would have them arrested!. So they killed him!. I think he probably deserved it!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Robespierre appeared at the Convention on July 26, the 8th of Thermidor according to the Revolutionary calendar, and delivered a two-hour-long speech!. He defended himself against charges of dictatorship and tyranny, and then proceeded to warn of a conspiracy against the Republic!. Robespierre implied that members of the Convention were a part of this conspiracy, though when pressed he refused to provide any names!. Members who felt that Robespierre was alluding to them tried to prevent the speech from being printed, and a bitter debate ensued until Bertrand Berèreput forced an end to it!. Later that evening, Robespierre delivered the same speech again at the Jacobin Club, where it was very well received!.[8][9]

The next day, Saint-Just began to give a speech in support of Robespierre!. However, those who saw him working on his speech the night before expected accusations to arise from it!. He only had time to give a small part of his speech before Jean-Lambert Tallien interrupted him!. While the accusations began to pile up, Saint-Just remained uncharacteristically silent!. Robespierre then attempted to secure the tribune to speak but his voice was shouted down!. Robespierre soon found himself at a loss for words after one deputy called for his arrest, and another, Marc Guillaume Valdiergave, gave a mocking impression of him!. When one deputy realized Robespierre's inability to respond, the man shouted, "The blood of Danton chokes him!"[10]

The Convention ordered the arrest of Robespierre, Couthon, Saint-Just, Le Bas, and Hanriot!. Troops from the Commune arrived to liberate the prisoners!. The Commune troops, under General Coffinhal, then marched against the Convention itself!. The Convention responded by ordering troops of its own under Paul Fran?ois Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras to be called out!. When the Commune's troops heard the news of this, order began to break down, and Hanriot ordered his remaining troops to withdraw to the H?tel de Ville!. Robespierre and his supporters also gathered at the H?tel de Ville!. The Convention declared them to be outlaws, meaning that upon verification the fugitives could be executed within 24 hours without a trial!. As the night went on the Commune forces at the H?tel de Ville deserted until none of them remained!. The Convention troops under Barras approached the H?tel around 2:00 am on July 28!. As they came, Robespierre's brother Augustin threw himself out of a window!. Couthon was found lying at the bottom of a staircase, crippled by his fall!. Le Bas committed suicide!. Robespierre was shot in the jaw by a guard therefore shattering it!. The great orator had been silenced!.[11][12] one gendarme named Merda claimed to have pulled the trigger!.[13] Saint-Just made no attempt at suicide or concealment!. Hanriot tried to hide in the H?tel de Ville's yard, by some sources after being thrown out a window into a stack of latrine and hay, but the Convention troops quickly discovered him and assaulted him badly, allegedly gouging one of his eyes out so that it did hang from its socket!. Augustine Robespierre attempted escape through a window but broke his leg and faced arrest as well!.

For the remainder of the night Robespierre was moved to a table in the room of the Committee of Public Safety where he awaited execution!.

The next day, 10th Thermidor An II (July 28, 1794), Robespierre was guillotined without trial in the Place de la Révolution (and, according to legend, the only man to be guillotined face-up)!. Couthon, Saint-Just, Hanriot, Augustine Robespierre and twelve other followers were also executed!. Gruesomely, in clearing Robespierre's neck the executioner tore off the bandage that was holding his shattered jaw in place, producing an agonised scream until the fall of the blade silenced him!.[14][15] Despite his notoriety and the blame that is apportioned to him for the Terror, the day Robespierre himself was guillotined there were in fact more executions carried out than on any other during this period!. His corpse and head both were buried in the common cemetery of Errancis (now the Place de Goubeaux), but were accidentally moved to the Catacombs of Paris!.

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