It tells you in the article, the White Terror killed him, and then started calling what he did "The Terror" to discredit him, while they killed lots of their political enemies.
Don't mess with powerful people or they will kill you, and make you the villain of the story.
> The term "Terror" being used to describe the period was introduced by the Thermidorian Reaction who took power after the fall of Maximilien Robespierre in July 1794,[1][2] to discredit Robespierre and justify their actions.[3] Today there is consensus amongst historians that the exceptional revolutionary measures continued after the death of Robespierre, and this subsequent period is now called the "White Terror".
I'm struggling to follow your analogy. The Reign of Terror (slavery on Haiti?) fed into a reactionary White Terror (1804 massacre?), which in turn led to the rise of another brutal dictator and the return of all that was bad about the monarchy. Is that right?
Don't mess with powerful people or they will kill you, and make you the villain of the story.
> The term "Terror" being used to describe the period was introduced by the Thermidorian Reaction who took power after the fall of Maximilien Robespierre in July 1794,[1][2] to discredit Robespierre and justify their actions.[3] Today there is consensus amongst historians that the exceptional revolutionary measures continued after the death of Robespierre, and this subsequent period is now called the "White Terror".