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Hace 2 días · Maximilien Robespierre, fue elegido como miembro del Comité de Salvación Pública, el 27 de julio de 1793. Las responsabilidades asignadas al Comité por la Convención Nacional, eran de una envergadura apabullante. Con la ventaja que proporciona, contemplar los hechos retrospectivamente, el “Terror” q...
Hace 4 días · Having carried the day in the Jacobin Club, Robespierre rose to speak the next day in the Convention, where he attacked members of the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security, until now his closest collaborators, for their extreme use of the Terror.
Hace 1 día · McPhee also explores the nature of what is known as ‘the Terror’. Instead of casting Robespierre as prime architect he argues that it was ‘the desperate nature of the crisis of mid-1793, and the lack of resources to deal with it, that forced the deputies into reluctant suspension of civil liberties they would normally have seen ...
Hace 5 días · Robespierre was a lawyer from Arras, known for his commitment to social equality and political justice. He became a leader in the revolution, advocating for the execution of the king and opposing counterrevolutionary factions.
Hace 2 días · In place of the tired old view of Robespierre as a power-crazed dictator, and mastermind of a ‘Reign of Terror’, McPhee shows us Robespierre’s gradual evolution from an idealist who began, in Robespierre’s own words, as a defender of ‘the poor and unknown’, against a privileged and rich elite ‘whose luxury devours the ...
Hace 2 días · During the Reign of Terror, spanning from September 1793 to July 1794, the guillotine evolved into an instrument of political repression. ... The revolutionaries, led by figures such as Maximilien Robespierre, believed that the revolution’s survival necessitated the eradication of counter-revolutionary elements.
Hace 3 días · The French Revolutionary Wars ( French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and several other countries. The wars are divided into two periods: the War of the ...
