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The beheaded man is Couthon. Robespierre is sitting on the cart holding a handkerchief to his mouth. His younger brother Augustin is being led up the steps to the scaffold. The Reign of Terror (September 5 1793 - July 28, 1794) was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions. The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16, 594 executed by guillotine (2, 639 in Paris), and another 25, 000 in summary executions across France. The guillotine became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions: King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, the Girondins, Madame Roland, and others such as pioneering chemist Antoine Lavoisier, lost their lives under its blade. Robespierre was executed on July 28, 1794 with 21 of his closest associates, including: Adrien-Nicolas Gobeau, Antoine Simon, Augustin Robespierre, Charles-Jacques Bougon, Christophe Cochefer, Claude-Francois de Payan, Denis-Ìätienne Laurent, Ìätienne-Nicolas GuÌ©rin, Francois Hanriot, Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette, Jean-BarnabÌ© Dhazard, Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot, Jean-Claude Bernard, Jean-Etienne Forestier, Jacques-Louis FrÌ©dÌ©ric WouarmÌ©, Jean-Marie Quenet Georges Couthon, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Nicolas-Joseph Vivier, and RenÌ©-Francois Dumas.
