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Noun: Maximilien Robespierre
  1. French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'état (1758-1794)
    - Robespierre, Maxmillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre

Type of: revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive, subverter

Encyclopedia: Maximilien Robespierre