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Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was born on May 6, 1758, in Arras, France.
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Man of the people: Finding the real Robespierre

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Marcel Gauchet

ROBESPIERRE

L'homme qui nous divise le plus

281 pp. Gallimard. 21 [euro].

978 2 07 282092 2

Marc Bloch once asked his Robespierrists and anti-Robespierrists colleagues "for pity's sake, just tell us who was Robespierre?" Marcel Gauchet's response is that he was once either a Jacobin hero, the "Incorruptible one", or a villain, a Jacobin tyrant, an assassin, "le heros et le monstre". He also forcefully asserts that it is time to move beyond these judgements.

Gauchet's Robespierre: L'homme qui nous divise le plus is a remarkable if unusually assembled book: it has no bibliographic footnotes, only four footnotes of any kind, no real bibliography and no index. Nor is it a biography of the Incorruptible who was born on May 6, 1758 and died on 10th Thermidor of the Year II (July 28, 1794). It is instead a subtle, elegant and perspicacious explanation of Robespierre's double career, in 1789-91 and 1792-4. It is also a general guide

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Robespierre

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was born on May 6, 1758, in Arras, France. His mother died when he was only six and his father, a lawyer, abandoned the family soon afterward. Robespierre received a law degree from the Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris, France, and practiced law in Arras. He began to assume a public role as a voice calling for political change and wrote articles detailing his opinions. At age thirty he was elected to the Estates General, the French legislature.

During the first period of the French Revolution (1789–91), in which the Estates General became the National Assembly, Robespierre made many speeches. His ideas were seen as extreme: his belief in civil liberty and equality, his refusal to compromise, and his anger toward all authority won him little support in the legislature. He favored giving the vote to all men, not just property owners, and he opposed slavery in the colonies. Robespierre was more popular at meetings of a Paris club called the Jacobins, whose members admired him and referred to him as "t

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4. How Literature Ended the Terror

Douthwaite, Julia V.. "4. How Literature Ended the Terror". The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012, pp. 153-227. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226160634-007

Douthwaite, J. (2012). 4. How Literature Ended the Terror. In The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France (pp. 153-227). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226160634-007

Douthwaite, J. 2012. 4. How Literature Ended the Terror. The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 153-227. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226160634-007

Douthwaite, Julia V.. "4. How Literature Ended the Terror" In The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France, 153-227. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226160634-007

Douthwaite J. 4. How Literature Ended the Terror. In: The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary