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Also Known As Comité de Salut Public
Date September 1793 - July 1794
Related People Maximilien Robespierre • Georges Danton • Louis de Saint-Just • Lazare Carnot • Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès • Bertrand Barère • Jean-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne • Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois • Joseph Cambon • Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, duke de Parme • Georges Couthon • Jean-Baptiste-Robert Lindet • Jean-Lambert Tallien • Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles • Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois

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Eighteenth-century painted portrait of Maximilien de Robespierre wearing a brown striped coat, high collar, and white cravat, set against a plain background.
Georges Danton
Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles
Engraving depicting the dramatic arrest of Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution, with armed guards seizing him in a crowded, torch-lit chamber.
Engraved portrait of Maximilien Robespierre, shown from the shoulders up with curled hair, a high-collared coat, and a cravat, against a dark background.
Engraving of a Revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror, with judges at a table, armed guards, and citizens, some pointing and gesturing in a crowded courtroom.
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