Before democracy came officially to France, the French people suffered a time of hardcore horror known as the Reign of Terror. The reign of terror had to do with the cruel ruling of a dictator named Maximilien Robespierre. Robespierre during that time took control of France when the country was at a struggle of power. He tried to erase everything that reminded his people about the old monarchy.
The thing that gave the reign of terror it's name was Robespierre sending people to be executed using a contraption called the guillotine. The guillotine was a machine that cuts people's heads off, used before Robespierre took control. It has contributed to the death of King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette by a powerful group called the Jacobins. The reason he executed many people with this device was the fact that these people might be a dangerous threat to the so called free government. It ended when the French got tired of Robespierre's government cutting people's heads off with the influence that they might be next. They took Robespierre to the guillotine and paid the price of killing millions of innocent people with his head chopped off.
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