Robespierre and The Reign of Terror

The French Revolution was when the people of France revolt against the government. The government were the citizens of France very poorly, dividing them into extremely unfair estates. There were three estates: the first estate which were of Catholic clergies; the second estate which consisted for wealthy nobles and finally the third estate which was everyone else. The unfair thing was that the third estate paid 98% of all taxes while the wealthy nobles and Catholic clergies paid less then 2%. The citizens took after the Enlightenment thinkers and decided to stand up and ask questions about what was occurring. They wanted a democracy-like setting in their country.
The democracy-like setting the citizens demanded was not set up as soon as the French Revolution began. It took some time. The French Revolution soon crumbled into the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was about a 10 month period during the Revolution in which a wave of executions by the guillotine. The first person to get killed by the guillotine after the king died, was his wife, Marie Antoinette. People being killed by the guillotine was considered a learning experience. 30,000 people in France lost their lives due to the sudden breakout of executions by the guillotine. Maximilien Robespierre arose and took over the country of France. He wanted to destroy all traces of any monarchy-like setting. He took over France like a dictator would. The rule of Robespierre was called the Reign of Terror because nobody was safe. He was responsible for killing so many people. The Reign of Terror concluded when Robespierre was arrested and executed.