That is Robespierre, radical leader of the Jacobins during the French Revolution getting his just desserts. Karma is a bitch.
Obviously a French Revolution business day. People being marched up one side of the guillotine, maybe or maybe not being allowed some final words, being laid down on a plank while the blade's being raised again, maybe or maybe not someone says something about divine mercy and then schhhWHOP.
The dudes out on the periphery then pick the (probably still alive) head up by the hair and show it to the crowd, some other dudes throw the body in the oxcart, and away it goes, to be burned or whatever. Blood-borne pathogens everywhere, but they wouldn't have known that, of course.
Leave it to me to ax nuisance questions about the details, though. Sorry. :)
There in the foreground it looks like one condemned soul is being kissed by a person dressed in dark clothes whose gender I can't confirm, who seem to have their hands being their back? Or am I seeing that wrong?
And just to the right of that scene there's a guy knelt down by the steps getting his hair cut by a guy with a pair of scissors. Is that to thwart the beheaded head-showing dudes from showing his beheaded head off to the crowd by holding it up by the hair or is it something else?
Sorry, I just tend to be curious about trivia like that...
BTW back to your first point, the Jacobins were the hsit-stirrers, the community organizers of the time, isn't that correct? And Robespierre was chief among them, like a kingpin community organizer? I've heard the name before but not the context.
THX