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Maximilien Robespierre, Louis Antoine Saint-Just, Georges Couthon, and their allies take shelter at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris on the night of 9-10 Thermidor Year II (27-28 July 1794), where they plot an insurrection against the National...

The Morning of 10 Thermidor Year II depicts a wounded Maximilien Robespierre on the last morning of his life, jaw shattered, lying on the centered table. He and his allies would be executed later that day. Oil on canvas by Lucien-Étienne...

Fall of Maximilien Robespierre on the floor of the National Convention, 27 July 1794 (9 Thermidor Year II). Oil on canvas by Max Adamo, 1870. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

On 9 Thermidor Year II (27 July 1794), Jean-Lambert Tallien brandished a dagger and demanded the arrest of Maximilien Robespierre. Engraving by Lecouturier after a drawing by Auguste Raffet, Paris, published by Furne and W. Coquebert, 1847.

Sketch of Maximilien Robespierre on the way to the guillotine, 28 July 1794, attributed to Jacques-Louis David. Morgan Library & Museum, New York.

The Story of Tutankhamun: An Intimate Life of the Boy Who Became King by Garry Shaw.

Allegory of the Concordat of 1801, painting by Pierre Joseph Célestin François, 1802. Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau, Rueil-Malmaison.

Portrait of Pope Pius VII, oil on panel by Jacques-Louis David, 1805. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Portrait of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, in Coronation Robes, oil on canvas by an unknown artist, after Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 19th century. Palace of Versailles.

Louis XVIII of France in Coronation Robes, oil on canvas by François Gérard, c. 1814. Hôtel Beauharnais, Paris.