Apart from the commencement of the Reign of Terror, Maximilien Robespierre was also the architect behind the French Comité De Salut Public (The Committee of Public Safety), a political body recognised for its virtual dictatorial control over the nation’s government during the Reign of Terror. This committee’s main objective was to protect the revolution from its enemies, in which, unfortunately, meant the trial and sentencing of these enemies to death by guillotine. Even some of those who helped begin the revolution who were deemed, "not radical enough" by Robespierre were also ordered to be executed by the guillotine. This guillotine was often depicted as an example of enlightenment thinking run amok, however, at the time, more people were killed by guns.

 

 

During merely a year of the Reign of Terror, three-hundred thousand enemies of the Revolution were arrested at least ten-thousand died in jail and approximately forty thousand people were either killed or murdered under the dominating presence of Maximilien Robespierre, one of which included Marie Antionette. After a two-day trial which began on 14 October 1793, Marie Antoinette was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed by guillotine on the Place de la Révolution on 16 October 1793.

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Maximilien Robespierre, once an impassioned supporter of a free press, was finally seized and beheaded by the National Convention without trial on July 28th, 1794, along with his brother, Augustine, Antoine Simon, the Dauphin of France and twenty-one other followers. The Reign of Terror finally concluded this very day and France was soon restored to one of an Imperial government. With the aftermath of the coup, the Committee of Public Safety lost its authority, the prisons were emptied, and the French Revolution became distinctly less radical.