| Under Maximilien Robespierre, the Jacobins instituted extreme policies to crush enemies of the state. |
| The commune refused to be disbanded and, after hints from Robespierre at the Jacobins, tried to have a number of hostile deputies and ministers arrested. |
| Robespierre dared not risk the countercharge of leniency to a former peer, and Biron was guillotined. |
| As we know, this emanation of virtue would in time cause Robespierre and his followers to lose their heads under the severe and inflexible blade of the guillotine. |
| While Robespierre ranted, he directed the band of the Garde Nationale and served up Jacobin ditties. |
| Includes works by such important figures as Necker, Mirabeau and Robespierre. |
