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Hace 3 días · Robespierre was worn out, and as his physical strength waned the enemies of the revolution, disguised in the costumes of patriots, grew inexorably in his mind. He now catalogued the forces of the Revolution into a dangerous set of binary distinctions: friends and enemies, patriots and traitors, liberty and tyranny.
Hace 4 días · In May 1791 Robespierre tried unsuccessfully to secure the abolition of the death penalty, which he termed a barbaric punishment. To understand how such a man, along with many others, turned to the use of terror to defend the Revolution we need to comprehend the shattering effects of the critical period of the Revolution, combined ...
Hace 4 días · French Revolution, revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 and reached its first climax there in 1789—hence the conventional term ‘Revolution of 1789,’ denoting the end of the ancien regime in France and serving also to distinguish that event from the later French revolutions of 1830 and 1848.
Hace 2 días · The Death of Robespierre. Annotation. This engraving, based on a color portrait by Beys, depicts the death of Robespierre on the guillotine. The executioners wear not the traditional hangman’s hood but red bonnets representing liberty. This judgment notes Robespierre’s failure to the Revolution itself.
Hace 3 días · Increasingly isolated from the sections and the sans-culottes, and even from the National Convention, the Jacobin Club suffered from the fate that befell Robespierre, one of its leading lights on 9 Thermidor (27 July). Public opinion blamed the Jacobins for the Terror, and the club was suppressed on 22 Brumaire Year III (12 November 1794).
Hace 3 días · Robespierre a habité cette maison avec sa soeur Charlotte et son frère Augustin de 1787 jusqu’en avril 1789 et son départ pour Versailles.
Hace 2 días · Enragés lancent l’assaut verbal pendant cinq heures à la tribune de la Convention contre Robespierre et ses amis. Maximilien sous les soufflets de la calomnie tente de réagir face aux cris de « A bas le tyran ! ». Il est arrêté par les gendarmes avec 4 autres députés : son frère Augustin, St Just, Couthon, Le Bas.
