Robespierre and the Reign of Terror

Robespierre and the Reign of terror was a time during the French Revolution when the nobles, the king, the clergy and the lords began to lose most of their power over the people in the lower class men. However the people who were gaining power in France were now becoming greedy and power-hungry. The outcome of the king losing his power came the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was a period of violence with the enemies of the Revolution. A limited Monarchy was set up; A legislative Assembly was set up to work with and share power with the King. The kings didn’t like this at all because they wanted to have absolute power over everything. While France was figuring out was to do with the new people in power, a new group of people who called themselves The Jacobins, took over. Who ever disagreed with there opinions would get there head chopped off. The guillotine was the machine that they used to cut off people heads.

You could be a friend of Robespierre one day, and sent to the guillotine the next. Robespierre even killed Louis XVI widow, Queen Marie Antoinette. Her last words were: "Monsieur... I beg your pardon. I did not do it on purpose". After The king and his widow's head were cut off the people of France were in shock and scared.
As time passed by and leaders struggled to get power back from Maximilien Robespierre. Kings, queens, and jacks were removed for faces of revolutionaries, the calendar was changed, and church’s in Paris were closed. His rule was called the Reign of Terror. It was named like this because people were executed, and scared.

Even people who worked with Maximilien were scared of him they made sure of no stupid movements because they didn’t want to have their heads chopped off . During the Terror, approximately 3,000 people were executed in Paris. People were tired of being scared so they organized a conspiracy or a team of people who worked together to gain power again and he was executed. He was killed by having his head chopped off just like he did to all of the other people in France and finally the Reign of Terror was over.