Fall of Maximilien Robespierre

Coup of 9–10 Thermidor
Part of the French Revolution
Fall of Robespierre in the Convention by Max Adamo
Date 27 July 1794 Location Paris, France Result Thermidorian victory Fall of Montagnards End of the Reign of Terror
Belligerents
Thermidorians Supported by: National Convention National Guard Committee of General Security	Jacobins Supported by: National Guard (loyalists) Sans-culottes
Commanders and leaders
Paul Barras Jean-Lambert Tallien Joseph Fouché Pierre-Louis Bentabole Charles-André Merda	Maximilien Robespierre  Louis de Saint-Just  Georges Couthon  François Hanriot  Augustin Robespierre
Strength
Unknown	c. 3,000 loyalists
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Various people were executed: 21 Robespierrists 70 Communards 78 Montagnard deputies

Maximilien Robespierre addressed the National Convention on 26 July 1794, was arrested the next day, and executed on 28 July. In his speech on 26 July, Robespierre spoke of the existence of internal enemies, conspirators, and calumniators, within the Convention and the governing Committees. He refused to name them, which alarmed the deputies who feared Robespierre was preparing another purge of the Convention, similar to previous ones during the Reign of Terror.^[1]

On the following day, this tension in the Convention allowed Jean-Lambert Tallien, one of the conspirators whom Robespierre had in mind in his denunciation, to turn the Convention against Robespierre and decree his arrest.^[2][3] By the end of 28 July Robespierre was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Révolution.^[4] Robespierre's fall led to more moderate policies being implemented during the subsequent Thermidorian Reaction.