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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.
Revolutionaries --- Statesmen --- Robespierre, Maximilien, --- France --- History --- Politics and government
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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.
History of France --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Morale politique --- Jacobins (Histoire) --- Montagnards (Histoire de France) --- Et la Révolution française --- Robespierre, Maximilien de, --- France --- Clubs --- Jacobins --- Revolutionaries --- Club des Jacobins --- Révolutionnaires --- Robespierre, Maximilien, --- History --- Histoire --- Et la Révolution française. --- Clubs. --- Robespierre, Maximilien de --- De Robespʹer, Maksmilian-Mari-Izidor, --- De Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore, --- Robespʹer, Maksimilian-Mari-Izidor de, --- Robespierre, --- Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore de, --- Rūbispiyīr, Maksīmilyān, --- de Robespierre, Maximilien --- Robespierre, Maximilien --- de Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore
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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.
Robespierre, Maximilien, --- Robespierre, Maximilien, --- Revolution (France : 1789-1799) --- 1789-1799 --- France. --- France --- History --- Morality. --- National event. --- Revolutionary Festival. --- Robespierre. --- Supreme Being.
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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.
France --- History --- Causes. --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Robespierre, Maximilien, --- Napoleon --- Influence --- Congresses. --- Relations with revolutionaries --- Napoléon --- Bonaparte, Napoléon --- Bonapart, Napoleon, --- Bonāpārṭa, Nepoliyana --- Bonaparte, Napoleão --- Bonaparte, Napoleon --- Bonaparte, Napoleone --- Bonaparṭeh, Napolyon, --- Buonaparte, Napoleon --- Na-pʻo-lun --- Nābuliyūn, --- Napoleone --- Napʻolleong, --- Napolun --- נפוליאון --- נפוליאון, --- نابليون --- بونابرت، نابليون، --- Būnābart, Nābuliyūn, --- de Robespierre, Maximilien --- Robespierre, Maximilien --- de Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore
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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.
English literature --- Politics and literature --- Romanticism --- History and criticism. --- History --- French influences. --- Robespierre, Maximilien, --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, --- De Robespʹer, Maksmilian-Mari-Izidor, --- De Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore, --- Robespʹer, Maksimilian-Mari-Izidor de, --- Robespierre, --- Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore de, --- Rūbispiyīr, Maksīmilyān, --- Influence. --- France --- Rouseau, Jan Jakub, --- Russo, Zhan Zhak, --- Rousseau, John James, --- Rūssū, Jān Jāk, --- Lu-so, --- Ru-xô, Giăng-Giá̆c, --- Rousseau, Jean Jaques, --- Rousseau, Jean Jeacques, --- Rousseau, J. J. --- Rusō, Jan Jakku, --- Rousseau, Gian Giacomo, --- Ruso, Z'an Z'aḳ, --- Rūcō, --- Citoyen de Genève, --- Citizen of Geneva, --- Roussō, --- Rousseau, --- Rūssō, --- Rousseau, Johann Jacob, --- Руссо, Жан-Жак, --- רוסא, זשאן־זשאק --- רוסא, י׳ן י׳ק, --- רוסו, זאאן זאאק, --- רוסו, ז׳אן־ז׳אק, --- روسو، چان چاك --- روسو، ژان ژاك --- 卢梭, --- Rousseau, Juan Jacobo, --- Rousseau, G. G. --- Ruso, Jan Jak, --- Rūsaw, Zhān Zhāk, --- Rūsū, Zhān Zhāk, --- de Robespierre, Maximilien --- Robespierre, Maximilien --- Foreign public opinion, British. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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