This was the radical phase of the French Revolution led by Maximilian Robespierre. Out of fear of anti-revolutionaries, tens-of-thousands of people where executed at the guillotine as 'enemies of the state' without evidence or fair trials. Eventually, Robespierre himself was executed in this manner, ending the era.

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This was the radical phase of the French Revolution led by Maximilian Robespierre. Out of fear of anti-revolutionaries, tens-of-thousands of people where executed at the guillotine as 'enemies of the state' without evidence or fair trials. Eventually, Robespierre himself was executed in this manner, ending the era.