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Robespierre : A Revolutionary Life
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ISBN: 1280062177 9786613519917 0300183674 9780300183672 9780300118117 0300118112 9781280062179 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793-94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life with a deep understanding of society and the politics of the French Revolution to arrive at a fresh understanding of the man, his passions, and his tragic shortcomings.Peter McPhee gives special attention to Robespierre's formative years and the development of an iron will in a frail boy conceived outside wedlock and on the margins of polite provincial society. Exploring how these experiences formed the young lawyer who arrived in Versailles in 1789, the author discovers not the cold, obsessive Robespierre of legend, but a man of passion with close but platonic friendships with women. Soon immersed in revolutionary conflict, he suffered increasingly lengthy periods of nervous collapse correlating with moments of political crisis, yet Robespierre was tragically unable to step away from the crushing burdens of leadership. Did his ruthless, uncompromising exercise of power reflect a descent into madness in his final year of life? McPhee reevaluates the ideology and reality of "the Terror," what Robespierre intended, and whether it represented an abandonment or a reversal of his early liberalism and sense of justice.


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Choosing terror : virtue, friendship, and authenticity in the French Revolution
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ISBN: 9780198733096 9780199576302 0199576300 0191747416 0191667587 0198733097 9780191667589 1299749550 9781299749559 0191057002 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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'Choosing Terror' examines the leaders of the French Revolution and particularly the process whereby they came to choose terror. Exploring the politics against a backdrop of traumatic events wars and betrayals it portrays the Jacobins as complex people who were influenced by emotions and personal loyalties, as well as by ideology.


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Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being
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ISBN: 9781526103802 9781526103819 1526103818 152610380X 1526120844 9781526120847 9781526103789 1526103788 9781526103796 Year: 2016 Publisher: Manchester

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This volume explores Robespierre's vision and the events held across France on this day, which he declared a national day of celebration to inaugurate the state religion of the new French Republic, the Cult of the Supreme Being. It redefines the importance of the Festival in the development of the Revolution.

The French Revolution
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ISBN: 1134682816 1134682824 128016428X 9786610164288 0203981162 9780203981160 9780415178853 0415178851 0415178851 9781134682812 9781134682829 6610164282 9781134682775 9781138142930 9964302061 Year: 1998 Publisher: London ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge,

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In the French Revolution, Jocelyn Hunt examines the major issues and background to the revolution, including its causes, and disputes as to when it ended. The author also surveys the views of historians on this period and looks at wider questions such as the nature of revolution.Beginning with the pre-revolution economic and political situation, and covering through to the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Bonaparte, this book provides both challenging analysis and a concise introduction.

Rousseau, Robespierre, and English Romanticism
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ISBN: 1107116139 0511007604 128015358X 0511117248 0511149387 0511324456 051148416X 0511051476 9780511007606 0511036248 9780511036248 9780511117244 9780521641005 0521641004 9780511484162 9786610153589 6610153582 9780521020398 0521020395 9781107116139 9780511149382 9780511324451 9780511051470 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book re-opens the question of Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on English Romanticism, by examining the relationship between his confessional writings and his political theory. Gregory Dart argues that by looking at the way in which Rousseau's writings were mediated by the speeches and actions of the French Jacobin statesman Maximilien Robespierre, we can gain a clearer and more concrete sense of the legacy he left to English writers. He shows how the writings of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth and William Hazlitt rehearse and reflect upon the Jacobin tradition in the aftermath of the French revolutionary Terror.

Van Abélard tot Zoroaster. Literaire en historische figuren vanaf de renaissance in literatuur, muziek, beeldende kunst en theater
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ISBN: 9061684153 Year: 1994 Publisher: Nijmegen Sun

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