This person was removed from power in July 1794 and executed without a trial, beginning a period known as the Thermidorian Reaction. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this statesman, whose radical Jacobin policies made him an architect of the Reign of Terror. This person was a member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793 onwards.
ANSWER: Maximilien Robespierre
[10e] Robespierre was a prominent figure in the First Republic, created after this event. This event is often said to have begun with the storming of the Bastille (“bas-TEE”) in Paris in 1789.
ANSWER: French Revolution
[10h] Madame de Staël argued that Robespierre’s attempt to establish this religion damaged his credibility. This deistic religion was a rival of the Cult of Reason, which was itself intended to replace Catholicism.
ANSWER: Cult of the Supreme Being [or Culte de l’Être suprême]
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