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Date	July 27, 1794
Participants	Jacobin Club • National Convention • Committee of Public Safety • Maximilien Robespierre
Context	French Revolution

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Timeline

Tennis Court Oath

June 20, 1789

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

July 12, 1790

French Revolutionary wars

April 1792 - c. 1801

September Massacres

September 2, 1792 - September 6, 1792

Wars of the Vendée

February 1793 - July 1796

Pierre-Antoine Demachy: Une Exécution capitale, place de la Révolution

Reign of Terror

September 5, 1793 - July 27, 1794

Thermidorian Reaction

July 27, 1794

Coup of 18 Fructidor

September 4, 1797

Coup of 18–19 Brumaire

November 9, 1799 - November 10, 1799

Key People

Maximilien Robespierre

French revolutionary

Louis de Saint-Just

French revolutionary

Georges Couthon

French Jacobin leader

Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, vicomte de Barras

French revolutionary

Collot d'Herbois, engraving by C. Minatelli, 18th century

Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois

French radical

Tallien, engraving by F. Bonneville, late 18th century

Jean-Lambert Tallien

French revolutionary

Louis Fréron

French journalist

Antoine-Christophe Merlin

French revolutionary

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