Maximilien Robespierre

Maximilien Robespierre was the leader of France for a brief time during the French Revolution. He was also the head of the Committee of Public Safety and helped to execute tens of thousands of people by guillotine that were supposedly against the state. He was important because of his brief power during a dark hour of the French Revolution and was a major player during the Terror of 1793-1794. 

Maximilien Robespierre is representational of the French Revolution because he brought about major change and ruled through dominance. The French Revolution was all about major reform and starting from scratch; it was not about tweaking and improving on past methods. Robespierre purged the country of anyone who threatened the revolution and so his arrests and executions of thousands were representative of the major changes that happened. Napolean tamed the revolution and conquered much of Europe, and Robespierre dominated France for a brief period while keeping the country in a state of terror. Robespierre represented conduct of the revolution because he was like a tyrant or dictator. 

Info from the textbook and Gale.