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In 1765 Robespierre attended the college of the Oratorians. In 1769 he was awarded a scholarship to the famous college of Louis le Grand in Paris, where he has proven himself in philosophy and law.
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Robespierre earned a stable wage as a lawyer at Arras and later when he joined the Arras Academy he became the Chancellor then President of the Arras Academy.
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The citizens of Arras chose him as one of their representatives the National Assembly where he served within the third estate. This started his political career at the age of 30.
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Robespierre succeeded in making himself heard despite the weak carrying power of his voice and the opposition that existed, and his motions were usually applauded by fellow leftists and radicals.
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Robespierre gets elected secretary of the National Assembly
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The Jacobins are a leftist radical political group that promoted the ideas of the French Revolution. Robespierre being a great speaker voices their opinions with the Assembly
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Martial law was announced, and at the Champ-de-Mars the national guard under the command of the marquis de Lafayette, a moderate who wanted to save the monarch opened fire on a group demanding the abdication of the king. The National Assembly gets dissolved and the Legislative Assembly is created by the people from the third estate.
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Robespierre helped create the Declaration of the Rights of Man. It formed the preamble of the French constitution and he insisted that all laws should conform to it. He fought for universal suffrage, for admission to the national guard, for public offices, for the ranks of the army, and for the right to petition. He opposed the royal veto, the abuses of ministerial power, and religious and racial discrimination.
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The Girondins who favored political but not social democracy and who controlled the government and the civil service accused Robespierre of dictatorship from the first sessions of the National Convention. At the king’s trial, in December 1792, Robespierre spoke 11 times and called for death.
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As Robespierre wasn't active in the Legislative Assembly by the time the National Convention was created Robespierre was chosen to head the delegation.
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Robespierre gets appointed to the Committee of Public Safety where he makes laws that punish people to the guillotine for speaking out against the government. This got thousands killed throughout the reign of terror. Robespierre becomes self-obsessed and eventually, when he starts to turn on his fellow people within the Convention they turn on him and execute him ending the Reign of Terror and Robespierre's rule.
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Robespierre gets executed.