Robespierre

[ rohbz-peer, -pee-air; French raw-bes-pyer ]

noun

1. Max·i·mi·lien Fran·çois Ma·rie I·si·dore de [m, a, k-see-mee-, lyan, f, r, ah, n, -, swa, m, a, -, ree, ee-zee-, dawr, d, uh], 1758–94, French lawyer and revolutionary leader.

Robespierre

/ ˈrəʊbzpjɛə; rɔbzpjɛr /

noun

1. RobespierreMaximilien François Marie Isidore de17581794MFrenchPOLITICS: revolutionaryPOLITICS: statesman Maximilien François Marie Isidore de . (maksimiljɛ̃ frɑ̃swa mari izidɔr də). 1758–94, French revolutionary and Jacobin leader: established the Reign of Terror as a member of the Committee of Public Safety (1793–94): executed in the coup d'état of Thermidor (1794)

Robespierre

1. A French political leader of the eighteenth century. Robespierre, a Jacobin , was one of the most radical leaders of the French Revolution . He was in charge of the government during the Reign of Terror , when thousands of persons were executed without trial. After a public reaction against his extreme policies, he was executed without trial.

Example Sentences

Prominent French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre met the same fate a year later.

From Seattle Times

It is where Louis XVI died by guillotine in 1793 and where French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre met the same fate a year later.

From Seattle Times

Robespierre’s execution kicked off the Thermidorian Reaction, in which France returned to more conservative policies.

From Los Angeles Times

More disturbing, Harris’s radicalism leads him on more than one occasion to embrace an ends-justify-the-violent-means ethic of the sort espoused by utopian revolutionaries from Robespierre to Stalin to Mao.

From New York Times

The result, which is laced with literary references, dramatizes the rivalry between two revolutionary leaders, Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre.

From New York Times