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Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (; May 6 1758–July 28 1794) is one of the best-known leaders of the French Revolution. His supporters knew him as "The Incorruptible" because of his austere moral devotion to revolutionary political change. He was an influential member of the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror that ended with his arrest and execution in 1794. He studied at College of Louis-Le-grand in Paris and became a lawyer.