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Maximilien Robespierre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It was Robespierre who presented the petition of the Commune of Paris on 16 August to the Legislative Assembly, demanding the establishment of a revolutionary tribunal and the summoning of a Convention. Robespierre argued that the King, having "betrayed" the people by attempting to flee the country (or indeed, in Robespierre's opinion, in having been a King at all) was not just a criminal but a danger to the state - a threat through the unifying symbol he presented to the enemies of the newborn Republic. Robespierre was the next day taken before the tribunal, and without trial he was guillotined along with Couthon and Saint-Just and nineteen others of his adherents on the Place de la Révolution on the 10th Thermidor An II (28 July 1794). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre   (5136 words)

Thermidorian Reaction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robespierre and Saint-Just came under a concerted and organised attack from members of the Committee of Public Safety. With Robespierre the sole remaining strong man of the Revolution (following the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, and the executions of Georges Danton and Jacques Hébert), his apparently total grasp on power was, in fact, increasingly illusory, especially insofar as he seemed to have support from factions to his right. Arrest him!' Robespierre then made his appeal to the deputies of the Right, "Deputies of the Right, men of honour, men of virtue, give me the floor, since the assassins will not." However, the Right was decided, and a debate to arrest Robespierre and his followers ensued which led to the end of Robespierre's rule. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/9_Thermidor   (1146 words)

Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Robespierre was elected to the States-General of 1789, and his influence in the Jacobin Club grew steadily until he became its leader (see Jacobins). Robespierre opposed both the extreme left, under Jacques Hébert, and the moderates, led by Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins. By this time, however, Robespierre’s position was becoming precarious; he was faced by divisions within the Committee of Public Safety and by opposition from the Plain in the Convention. www.bartleby.com /65/ro/Robespie.html   (550 words)

Maximilien Robespierre biography - Reign of Terror Robespierre and his three younger siblings were brought up by diverse relatives after their father dramatically lost his way in life after the death of his wife in chilbirth in 1767. Robespierre was educated for a short time at a College in Arras and then in Paris initially at the very prestigious College of Louis-le-Grand and later at the College of Law. Although Robespierre was from one point of view only one of twelve members of the committee he was the only one who, through the full support he enjoyed from the Jacobin Clubs and the Commune of Paris, represented a close link to the more radical supporters of the Revolution. age-of-the-sage.org /historical/biography/maximilien_robespierre.html   (1358 words)

Maximilien Robespierre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Influenced by Rousseau, Robespierre went from being active in the National Assembly of France to being a leader of the Jacobins during the French Revolution. Robespierre's extreme and violent response to opposition was dubbed The Reign of Terror, and his ruthlessness eventually led to his downfall. Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre - Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore, 1758–94, one of the leading figures of the French... www.infoplease.com /biography/var/maximilienrobespierre.html   (184 words)

Maximilien Robespierre Maximilien Robespierre was born on May 6, 1758 in the bustling city of Arras, located in the northernmost tip of France. Robespierre, riding the wave of popular opinion he had mustered through his speeches, emerged victorious, and the Girondins were cast out, leaving the power solely with the Jacobins. Robespierre demanded that the king be put to death for the good of the French Republic, and in January 1793, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were beheaded. www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b2robespierre.htm   (960 words)

Maximilien Robespierre, Master of the Terror Maximilien Robespierre, known to his contemporaries as "the Incorruptible," is one of the most controversial and perhaps misunderstood figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre was six when his mother died and eight when his father began disappearing; this disruption of a heretofore very happy family life left deep impressions on young Robespierre, forcing him to mature quickly. Robespierre's failure can be viewed as that of a man so narrow-minded in his views that eventually he cannot conceive of anything outside of them, a man so firmly convinced of his own absolute rightness that he cannot see the glaring errors he makes. www.loyno.edu /history/journal/1983-4/mcletchie.htm   (5830 words)

Maximilien Robespierre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Robespierre was born in the city of Arras in 1758. Robespierre was elected to the Estates-General in 1789 and thus became involved in the French Revolution. Robespierre was elected as a representative of Paris. home.comcast.net /~glennwatson550/worksheets/robespierre.html   (588 words)

Maximilien Robespierre, 1758-1794 Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre was born, of Irish origin, at Arras, May 6, 1758. Robespierre vigorously opposed the Girondist idea of a special appeal to the people on the king's death, and Louis's execution on January 21, 1793, opened up the final stages of the struggle, which ended in a complete triumph of the Jacobins on June 2. On May 7 Robespierre, who had previously condemned the Cult of Reason, advocated a new state religion and recommended the Convention to acknowledge the existence of God; on June 8 the inaugural Festival of the Supreme being took place. www.historyguide.org /intellect/robespierre.html   (547 words)

BookRags: Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre Biography The French Revolutionary leader Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794) was the spokesman for the policies of the dictatorial government that ruled France during the crisis brought on by civil and foreign war. Robespierre, profoundly and rightly suspicious of the King's intentions, spoke and wrote in opposition to the course of events, until August 1792, when events turned in his favor with the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic. Robespierre and his colleagues on the committee saw them as a threat, and in March 1794 the Hébertist leaders and their allies were tried and executed. www.bookrags.com /biography/marie-isidore-de-robespierre   (1151 words)

Robespierre, Maximilien maximilien robespierre: justification of the use of terror... maximilien robespierre and the reign of terror, 2004. Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) was a leading spirit of the Committee of Public Safety that supervised the terror. www.celebrityaz.com /2423_Robespierre_Maximilien.html   (313 words)

Maximilien Robespierre Memorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de (1758-94), French lawyer and political leader, who became one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution and the principal exponent of the Reign of Terror. Born on May 6, 1758, in Arras, and educated in Paris at the College of Louis-le-Grand and at the College of Law, Robespierre became a fanatical devotee of the social theories of the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. In May, at Robespierre's insistence, the National Convention proclaimed as an official religion the cult of the Supreme Being, which was based on Rousseau's theory of Deism. sangha.net /messengers/Robespierre.htm   (487 words)

Maximilien Robespierre Robespierre was indeed a murderous political despot and hypocrite in his own right. Robespierre was a superb orator and opportunist who appears to have used the Nationalist sentiments of the time to further his own interests and career and to justify the murders of all who stood in his way. Robespierre can be further shown at odds with the revolution's original spirit by examining the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, passed by that same National Assembly a short time later. visopsys.org /andy/essays/robespierre.html   (2025 words)

[No title] Robespierre was there when the Estates General convened in May 1789, and when he died, the idealism that had sparked the Revolution, for better or worse, died with him. In Marie-Helene Huet's brilliant study of Robespierre's changing historical depiction, she notes that "Robespierre, like Frankenstein's creature, was death among the living, an unnatural being by his green views and his yellow skin, his deep eye sockets and his mechanical gestures." The Anti-Robespierrists exaggerated his slight, pale form to make him some sort of monster. Robespierre is one of the characters that tells the story from his POV and therefore is portrayed sympthetically....but more of a practical, if idealistic, politician whose chief failing is falling out of line with the sans-culotte than anything else. www.angelfire.com /ca6/frenchrevolution89/robespierre.html   (3417 words)

Maximilien Robespierre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Robespierre was either a tyrant or a servant of the people; a savior of the Revolution or the devil incarnate. Robespierre's journalist friend Desmoulins, wrote of this period, "the gods are thirsty." By the summer of 1794 an estimated 40,000 had died. Caught in the death machine of his own creation, Robespierre would in the early years be condemned as a bloodthirsty tyrant, but later historical reflection softened this analysis and he is also remembered as a champion of the poor, destitute and politically oppressed. ehistory.osu.edu /world/PeopleView.cfm?PID=317   (736 words)

Ideology of Robespierre Robespierre dreamed of an egalitarian republic that would rid society of the speculators who took rights away from the common man. His Republic was a system whose objective was to realize the equality which must be both democratic and socially egalitarian. Robespierre shared Rousseau's view that private property was the root of social inequality. Robespierre felt the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, drafted by the National Assembly, was made for capitalists and speculators because it did not define the nature and legitimacy of man's freedom of property. www.mtholyoke.edu /~etanter/ideology.html   (629 words)

Term Paper on "Maximilien Robespierre's Beliefs"--does a revolution always have to include terror? also explains ... He believes that to safely go through the stormy revolution, the people's behavior should be regulated by stormy circumstances, and their plans should be based on the combination of the spirit of revolutionary government and democracy. A revolution doesn't necessarily have to include terror and the popular government does not have to be ruthless to its people, because then the revolutionaries may lose their supporters (or they may even revolt) and the radicals might have to face more enemies. This was true, because Robespierre's former followers had him arrested and executed, and the day after the execution, everyone felt relieved. www.swiftpapers.com /essay/Maximilien_Robespierres_Beli-153432.html   (230 words)

LRB | Hilary Mantel : If you’d seen his green eyes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Robespierre suspected that his colleagues were ‘masked’, that the meaning of events was ‘veiled’, and he was right. Robespierre had believed in the purity of heart of his colleague Pétion, who had sat in the Estates General with him; he had seen Pétion turn into a pompous, self-serving windbag who thought the king’s sister had fallen in love with him. Robespierre checked the excesses of Fouché and Tallien, who, on mission in the provinces, had committed atrocities in the name of the Revolution; and he intervened to save individuals. www.lrb.co.uk /v28/n08/mant01_.html   (4728 words)

The Riddle of Ermenonville by Elena Rudenko Maximilien Robespierre, an eminent figure of the Great French revolution, is usually represented as a gloomy, embittered, bloodthirsty tyrant - a malicious genius of the revolution. Maximilien Robespierre arrives in a small borough of Ermenonville to spend his vacation there. Robespierre did not want death of his opponents, but the furious crowd demanded punishment of enemies of the revolution. www.ebookmall.com /authors/rudenko   (493 words)

The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre by David P. Jordan Jordan's version of Robespierre's biography is a slanted, utopian vision of the world, according to L'Incorruptible, Robespierre, judging him by his writings rather than by his well known treacherous and sanguinary deeds and the toll they took on France from 1789-1794, particularly 1793-1794. What Robespierre actually did or did not do is important because even though he presided over the Reign of Terror, Robespierre also contributed significantly in driving the Revolution down the path of radicalism and violence, in the preceding years (1789-1793). The constitution that Robespierre was purportedly defending was the Constitution of 1791 that had established a Constitutional Monarchy for France in which the king possessed a powerful veto over the legislature (the Legislative Assembly). www.haciendapub.com /amazon13.html   (861 words)

Maximilien Robespierre Speech on the Festival of the Supreme Being Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was one of the leaders and orators of the French Revolution of 1789, best known for his involvement in the Reign of Terror that followed. He used his considerable oratory skills to successfully demand the execution of the king and queen, saying Louis XVI "must die that the country may live." In January 1793, the king was executed, followed ten months later by the queen. Robespierre then introduced the Reign of Virtue and the Festival of the Supreme Being, from which the speech below is taken. www.historyplace.com /speeches/robespierre.htm   (1343 words)

Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre: Bibliography - Bibliography There are many biographies of Robespierre, notably that by D. Jordan (1979), N. Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre: Early Life - Early Life A poor youth, he was enabled to study law in Paris through a scholarship. Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre: Reign of Terror - Reign of Terror On July 27, 1793, Robespierre was elected to the Committee of Public Safety, where... Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre: The Terror Ends - The Terror Ends The law of 22 Prairial (June 10) gave the Revolutionary Tribunal greater powers... www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0842097.html   (161 words)

Maximilien Robespierre - Wikiquote Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758–1794), one of the leaders of the French Revolution. The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. The tranquil enjoyment of liberty and equality; the reign of that eternal justice, the laws of which are graven, not on marble or stone, but in the hearts of men, even in the heart of the slave who has forgotten them, and in that of the tyrant who disowns them. en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre   (1066 words)

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