| As the French grew increasingly weary of the Jacobin Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, a revolt, the Thermidorian Reaction, was initiated by Antoine-Christophe Merlin and other conspirators on this day (9 Thermidor, year II, according to the French republican calendar), which resulted in the execution of Maximilien Robespierre and the collapse of revolutionary fervour in France. The same guillotine that on 9 Thermidor executed 45 anti-Robespierrists executed in the following three ... |