The Emergency Committee of Public Safety

A 16 year old girl named cecile renaud came banging on robespierre's door and made such a fuss about getting in that she was detained and searched. The rumor went around that the guy had ally wanted to kill robespierre and had just accidentally targeted the wrong man. "Whether she was really an assassin or not, both the incidents had to put robespierre’s own mental health, already a bit shaky, on even shakier ground," he says.