What can we learn from the rise and fall of Robespierre?

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most influential and controversial ... Aug 6, 2023 ... I've always thought that Danton had the political chops to be a good long term leader. What does he do with Napoleon, do you think? Aug 1, 2012 ... when revolutions do to peoples what certain crises do to individuals ... Maximilien Robespierre, “On the Right to Vote,” in Robespierre ... Maximilien Robespierre was born on May 6, 1758 in Arras, a beautiful town destroyed in World War I in the north of France. His father was a lawyer. He was the ... Sep 14, 2022 ... Instead, Robespierre was the revolutionary ideologue turned tyrant, the man who embodied the destructive fanaticism of principles that know no ... Deseine's terracotta bust of Robespierre, today displayed in the Musée de la Révolution française at Vizille, is absolutely “legit” insofar as it was sculpted ... Jun 24, 2014 ... This is a fictional scene, but if it weren't, what do you suppose Maximilien Robespierre may've been thinking? Are the flowers surrounding ... May 23, 2015 ... ... do I keep seeing stuff about Robespierre and oranges? Answer: He actually wanted to be Prince of Orange but there was a mistranslation of one... And anyone who does not agree with this idea of virtue should be executed. Tragically, the man who was once firmly against the death penalty would end up ... ... Robespierre and his fellow radicals. Not surprisingly, they did not do so well in the French Revolution which is a prime example of Gresham's law of ...