Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre is a major person in French history. He was an outspoken supporter of universal suffrage, the abolition of slavery, and religious tolerance. He was a key participant in the founding of the First French Republic and was elected as a representative to the National Convention. But what did he look like?
What Maximilien Robespierre Really Looked Like
Philippe Charlier and Philippe Foresch worked on this lawyer-politician representation in 2013. They used his death masks and works of art. Madame Tussaud herself is said to have designed the death masks! She had to make them out of his beheaded skull because he was executed in July 1794.