** Augustin Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1763 )

The arrest of Robespierre, his brother Augustin, and Saint-Just was ordered, along with that of their supporters, Philippe Le Bas and Georges Couthon.

Saint-Just, Couthon, and Maximilien and Augustin Robespierre were arrested and guillotined on July 28.

* Augustin Robespierre

Augustin Robespierre and Antoine Christophe Saliceti, two of the most powerful men in the Directory, responded favourably to Napoleons request ( bypassing his commander, Jean François Carteaux ) to seize the peninsula fort from the British and install artillery on a promontory overlooking the bay in order to fire on the British fleet at anchor.

In a panic of self-preservation, the Convention called for the arrest of Robespierre and his affiliates, including Couthon, Saint-Just and Robespierre's own brother, Augustin Robespierre.

Alexandre was guillotined, together with his cousin Augustin, on the Place de la Révolution ( today's Place de la Concorde ) in Paris, only five days before the deposition and execution of Robespierre.

The Convention ordered the arrest of Robespierre, his brother Augustin, Georges Couthon, Louis de Saint-Just, Philippe-François Le Bas, Hanriot and twelve other robespierrists.

To avoid capture, Augustin Robespierre tried to escape out of a window but slipped off the ledge and fell three storeys, breaking many bones ; Couthon was found lying at the bottom of a staircase ; Le Bas shot himself in the head.

Augustin de Robespierre ( Album du Centenaire )

Augustin Bon Joseph de Robespierre ( 21 January 1763 – 28 July 1794 ) was the younger brother of French Revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre.

* Alexandre Cousin, Philippe Lebas et Augustin Robespierre, deux météores dans la Révolution française, Bérénice, 2010.

* Mary Young, Augustin, the Younger Robespierre, Core Publications, 2011.

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The Chief of Artillery, commander Elzear Auguste Donmartin, having been wounded at Ollioules, had the young captain Napoleon Bonaparte imposed upon him by the special representatives of the Convention and Napoleon's friends — Augustin Robespierre and Antoine Christophe Saliceti.

With the help of his friends, the deputies Saliceti and Augustin Robespierre, who held power of life and death, he was able to compel retired artillery officers from the area to re-enlist.