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Maximilien Robespierre is arrested by soldiers loyal to the National Convention, in the early morning hours of 28 July 1794. Engraving by Michael Sloane, c. 1794. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

On 9 Thermidor Year II (27 July 1794), Jean-Lambert Tallien brandished a dagger and demanded the arrest of Maximilien Robespierre. Engraving by Lecouturier after a drawing by Auguste Raffet, Paris, published by Furne and W. Coquebert, 1847.

The Vision of Robespierre, a painting by French painter Jean-Joseph Weerts, sometime before 1927. Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Roubaix.

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