The short, violent life of Maximilien Robespierre was a mass of contradictions crowned with a supreme irony ... Robespierre can also be accused of being a revolutionary fanatic who hated atheists ...

Reading an article on Maximilien Robespierre published ... mix guarantees repeating the similarity between Robespierre and the ‘supreme being’ sectarian bubble of the French Revolution and ...

When we were done, we talked about how the book had inadvertently convinced us that Maximilien Robespierre ... The problem is that when Robespierre came into a position of supreme power, he ...

The boy was Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794 ... boys would take their place as administrators and lawyers. They were being educated for their future role, according to a strict classical ...

And Maximilien Robespierre could see no further than his brother. In the efforts of the advanced party he saw only attacks on the Government of which he was a member. Like Brissot, he accused them of ...

Through the life of Maximilien Robespierre, Misha Glenny explores the impact of the French Revolution and the period of violence known as the Terror. Show more On ...

THERE are very few figures who polarise opinion quite like the French Revolutionary Maximilien ... Robespierre, following Rousseau, believed profoundly that people were inherently good; but, being ...

In Revolutionary France, Maximilien Robespierre emerged as a passionate advocate for the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. But despite his initial commitment to justice, overreach made ...

A new scientific analysis shows French revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre was probably suffering ... by tiredness and a general feeling of being unwell. The causes of sarcoidosis are not ...

But where do you start with Maximilien Robespierre? Ruth Scurr takes on ... The Cult of the Supreme Being, which he instituted, seems now like a fudge (as well as a pantomime), a way of not ...