Robespierre

Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794), French lawyer and politician, was a major figure in the French Revolution and one of its most controversial. A member of the Jacobin Club from its very beginnings, his intransigence earned him the nickname “the Incorruptible.”
His detractors emphasize his role in establishing the Reign of Terror and the authoritarian exercise of power by the Committee of Public Safety. Others, however, believe that Robespierre attempted to limit the excesses of the Reign of Terror and was above all a defender of peace, direct democracy, and social justice, a spokesperson for the poor, and one of the key figures in the first abolition of slavery in France.
In July 1794, he was led to the guillotine where he had previously sent so many revolutionaries less radical than himself. His death led to the dismantling of the revolutionary government and the end of the Reign of Terror.