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Who led the radical Jacobin faction during the Reign of Terror (1793–1794)?
Robespierre dominated the Committee of Public Safety from July 1793 to his own execution on 28 July 1794 (the *9 Thermidor* in the revolutionary calendar). Approximately 17,000 people were formally executed during the Terror, with another 17,000 dying in prison. Danton was executed in April 1794 on Robespierre's order; Marat was assassinated in his bath in July 1793; Napoleon's coup was still five years away.
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The French Revolution The French Revolution was a period of radical political and social transformation in France that lasted from 1789 to 1799. It abolished the absolute monarchy, established the principle of popular sovereignty, and reshaped political thought across Europe for the following two centuries.
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