The first Committee member sent to oversee Lyons’ destruction, Georges Couthon, another enemy of the Catholic church, ordered the city’s inhabitants disarmed. Soon, Couthon’s task in Lyon was assumed ...

Maximilien Robespierre is pictured in the cart being escorted to his execution on July 28, 1794. Dressed in brown and wearing a hat, the figure holds a handkerchief to his mouth as his younger brother ...

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