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Soon, the war began to go well ; French troops marched across the southern half of the Netherlands ( which would later become Belgium ), and the emergency that had placed the Committee of Public Safety in control was no more.

Then plotters seized Robespierre at the National Convention and he was later guillotined, in effect ending the Reign of Terror.

As Robespierre was arrested, David yelled to his friend " if you drink hemlock, I shall drink it with you.

" After this, he supposedly fell ill, and did not attend the evening session because of " stomach pain ", which saved him from being guillotined along with Robespierre.

David was arrested and placed in prison.

There he painted his own portrait, showing him much younger than he actually was, as well as that of his jailer.