231 years ago today, July 28, 1794 (July 2, 1794 in the lunar calendar), Robespierre was executed. Rule of Terror-Maximilian Francois MarieIsidorede Robespierre (May 6, 1758-July 28, 1794), also translated as Robespierre, was a French revolutionary, an important leader during the French Revolution, and one of the actual heads of the Jacobin government. In 1789, the Third Estate elected him as a representative to attend the Third Estate Conference. He spoke more than 500 times in the National Assembly, proposing many democratic measures and winning public expectations. He participated in leading the trial of Louis XVI. The period of the reign of terror (French: Terreur), also known as the Jacobin dictatorship, was the name for the period of France ruled by the Jacobins led by Robespierre during the French Revolution from 1793 to 1794. On May 31, 1793, he led the French people's uprising, overthrew the rule of the Girondins and established the dictatorship of the Jacobins. During his administration, he tried to realize Rousseau's people's sovereignty and the political ideal of a bourgeois democratic republic. He took a series of political, economic, military, cultural and religious measures to crush the plot of domestic and foreign enemies to subvert the Republic, defend the achievements of the revolution, and push the Great Revolution to a climax. However, they opposed the free division of land and successively suppressed the Madmen, Ebel and Denton factions, undermining the alliance with the people. During its administration, the faction implemented a policy of terror, guillotine suspected counter-revolutionaries and strictly restricted prices. Thousands of people were brutally killed during this period. However, the Jacobins 'rule also made some contributions to French history, such as promoting education, advocating religious freedom, and abolishing slavery in French colonies. In 1794, the Thermidor coup broke out, Robespierre was beheaded, and the Jacobin dictatorship ended. On July 27, 1794, he was arrested in the Thermidor coup, and on the evening of the 28th, Robespierre was guillotined. He is a patriot and is still very influential in France.