ROBESPIERRE, MAXIMILIEN-FRANOIS-MARIE-ISIDORE DE

born May 6, 1758, Arras, Fr. died July 28, 1794, Paris radical Jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution. In the latter months of 1793 he came to dominate the Committee of Public Safety, the principal organ of the Revolutionary government during the Reign of Terror, but in 1794 he was overthrown and executed in the Thermidorian Reaction.