Maximilien Robespierre
French lawyer and famous politician Maximilien Robespierre was involved in the French Revolution. His advocacy included religious tolerance, universal manhood suffrage, abolition of slavery in French colonies, and abolition of celibacy. He played an important role in the establishment of the First French Republic and became the deputy to the National Convention. The French politician is best known for his major part in France’s “Reign of Terror.” Researchers used modern technology in order to determine what Robespierre might have looked like.
Maximilien Robespierre
What Maximilien Robespierre Really Looked Like
In 2013, Philippe Charlier and Philippe Froesch, who are a forensic pathologist and a facial reconstruction specialist respectively, teamed up to reconstruct the face of the poster boy of the French Revolution. In addition to the work of art which was created to flatter Robespierre, the two experts used the death mask of Robespierre, which supposedly was made by Madame Tussaud. She used Robespierre’s decapitated head to create the mask. On July 28, 1794, Robespierre was executed.
What Maximilien Robespierre Really Looked Like
