Maximilien Robespierre
"The Incorruptible"
Maximilien de Robespierre is a lawyer from Arras. He is elected deputy for the Third Estate and becomes a radical Jacobin leader and heads the left-wing faction The Mountain at the National Convention. Later a member of the Committee for Public Safety, he is one of the most influential and controversial figures of the Terror. He is a friend of Camille Desmoulins from their schooldays.
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