Editing Augustin Robespierre (section)

== Death ==
[[File:Proclamation Commune de Paris 10 Thermidor An II.jpg|thumb|Proclamation written by Augustin and signed by him, Maximilien Robespierre and Saint-Just calling Couthon to come to the townhall in the late evening of [[9 Thermidor]] ]]
[[File:Execution robespierre, saint just....jpg|thumb|Augustin Robespierre led up the steps to the guillotine on 28 July 1794]]

Robespierre was in the hall of the Convention on the day of [[9 Thermidor|9 Thermidor II]] (27 July 1794), when the deputies voted for the arrests of Maximilien, [[Louis Antoine de Saint-Just]] and [[Georges Couthon]] after a heated discussion. Robespierre then rose from his place on the benches and said, "I am as guilty as him; I share his virtues, I want to share his fate. I ask also to be charged." He was joined by [[Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas]].<ref name="Thompson" />{{rp|571}} The five were kept under guard in the rooms of the [[Committee of General Security]], where they remained until a place could be found for them.  Hearing of the arrests, the [[Paris Commune (French Revolution)|Commune of Paris]] issued orders to all prisons in the city, forbidding them to take any prisoner in, sent by the Convention. Robespierre was refused at [[Prison Saint-Lazare]] and taken to the prison of [[La Force prison|La Force]] while Maximilien was taken to the [[Luxembourg Palace|Luxembourg]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Baczko|first=Bronislaw|title=Ending the Terror: The French Revolution After Robespierre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lBX4-PoMuHIC&pg=PR11|year=1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-44105-6|page=11}}</ref><ref name="Scurr"/>{{rp|320}} Because of the Commune's orders, they were released and made their way to the [[Hôtel de Ville, Paris|Hôtel de Ville]]. Escorted by two municipal officers, Robespierre was the first to arrive.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k298640 |first=Ernest |last=Hamel |year=1897 |title=Thermidor : d'après les sources originales et les documents authentiques |language=fr}}</ref>{{rp|322}}<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/119/3/689/13188 |doi=10.1093/ahr/119.3.689 |title=The Overthrow of Maximilien Robespierre and the "Indifference" of the People |year=2014 |last1=Jones |first1=Colin |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=119 |issue=3 |pages=689–713|url-access=subscription }}</ref> There they spent the rest of the evening vainly trying to coordinate an insurrection. In the early morning of 10 Thermidor, the forces of the Convention under [[Paul Barras]] burst in and succeeded in taking most of them alive, except Le Bas, who had shot himself, and [[Jean-Baptiste Coffinhal]], who succeeded in escaping but turned himself in after a week.

In order to avoid capture, Robespierre took off his shoes and jumped from a ledge. He landed on the steps, or on some bayonets, resulting in a [[pelvic fracture]] and several serious head contusions.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/robespierresrise00lenouoft/page/n271 |last=Lenotre |first=G. |translator-first=Rodolph (Mrs.) |translator-last=Stawell |year=1924 |title=Robespierre's Rise and Fall |publisher=Hutchinson & Co.}}</ref>{{rp|271}} Barras ordered that Robespierre be carried back to the rooms of the Committee of General Security.<ref name="Assemblee" /> After a couple of hours the prisoners were taken to the [[Conciergerie]] prison; four of them were lying on stretchers. After identification at the [[Revolutionary Tribunal]] according to the [[Law of 22 Prairial]], the twenty-two convicts were sent to the scaffold on Place de la Révolution in the early evening. Couthon was the second of the prisoners to be executed, with Robespierre as the third, [[François Hanriot|Hanriot]] as the ninth and Maximilien as the tenth.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Sanson |first1=Henri |url=http://archive.org/details/memoirsofsansons02sansuoft |title=Memoirs of the Sansons, from private notes and documents, 1688–1847 |last2=Sanson |first2=Charles Henri |last3=Sanson |first3=Henri |last4=Olbreuze |first4=d' |date=1876 |publisher=Chatto and Windus}}</ref>{{rp|210}}