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Off with their heads! By July 1794, everyone was sick
By 1791, the revolutionaries ruled of Robespierre’s brutality. He
was then executed, to the
France. They passed laws to make
cheers of the people of Paris.
society more equal, and to reduce
the power of the Church and
nobility. King Louis XVI and
Queen Marie Antoinette tried to
escape from France in disguise, but
they were captured, imprisoned,
The guillotine and eventually BEHEADED by the
was designed guillotine for treason in 1793.
to make death
quick and Charles-Henri
(relatively!) Sanson executed
painless.
the king. He
executed about
3,000 people
during his career.

Robespierre’s Terror
Radical lawyer MAXIMILIEN
ROBESPIERRE became one of
the most powerful figures of the
Revolution. He was responsible
for the Reign of Terror of
1793–94, when up to 40,000
French people were executed
or died in prison, sometimes just
because Robespierre suspected
they were against the Revolution.

How it changed the world
The leaders of the French
Revolution put forward ideas
Did you know?
about freedom, equality, and
Louis was stripped of
all his royal titles and
democracy that eventually spread
executed under his
birth name of
the lives of ordinary people.

What came after… “Louis Capet.” all over Europe and vastly improved

Napoleon wanted to rule Europe,
After the Revolution collapsed in but he was defeated in 1815 at
1799, a brilliant soldier named Waterloo by the British, led by
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE rose up to the DUKE OF WELLINGTON (right).
became a military hero and, Napoleon fell from power
in 1804, emperor of France. and died in 1821.
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