During the Reign of Terror (1793-1794) in the French Revolution it is estimated that up to 40,000 people were executed by Guillotine.
Notable victims were:
- François III Maximilien de la Woestyne, 3rd Marquess of Becelaere
- Arnaud II de La Porte (23 August 1792) Second political victim of the guillotine
- Jacques Cazotte (1792) – Guillotined for treason
- Louis XVI of France (21 January 1793)
- Marie Antoinette (16 October 1793)
- Madame du Barry (8 December 1793)
- Charlotte Corday (1793) – Executed for the murder of Jean-Paul Marat
- Olympe de Gouges (1793) – Guillotined for sedition
- Jean Sylvain Bailly (1793)
- Madame Roland (1793) – Guillotined for Girondist
- Antoine Lavoisier (1794) – the “Father of Modern Chemistry”; Guillotined for treason
- Madame Élisabeth (1794)
- Georges Danton (1794)
- General Arthur Dillon – Guillotined in Paris for conspiracy (1794)
- Jacques Hébert (1794) – Guillotined for sedition
- Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert (1794)
- Camille Desmoulins (1794) – Guillotined for plotting against Robespierre
- Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles (1794) – Guillotined for plotting against Robespierre
- François Joseph Westermann (1794) – Guillotined for plotting against Robespierre
- Pierre Philippeaux (1794) – Guillotined for plotting against Robespierre
- Maximilien Robespierre (1794) – Guillotined by order of the Committee of General Security
- Georges Couthon (1794) – Guillotined by order of the Committee of General Security
- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1794) – Guillotined by order of the Committee of General Security
- Alexandre de Beauharnais (1794) – Husband of Josephine (who remarried Napoleon).
- Thérèse de Choiseul-Stainville (1794)
- André Chénier (1794) – Poet, guillotined on trumped-up charges
- Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (1795) – Guillotined for abuse of his post as Public Prosecutor
Image: The execution of Robespierre and his supporters on 28 July 1794.
Note: the beheaded man is not Robespierre, but Couthon: Maximilien Robespierre is shown sitting on the cart, dressed in brown, wearing a hat, and holding a handkerchief to his mouth. His younger brother Augustin is being led up the steps to the scaffold.