Like most revolutions, the popular uprising in France in 1789 contained within itself the seeds of its own destruction. In fact, some historians have argued that the rottenness at the core of the ...
Revolutionary France in 1794 was a crucible, combining all the elements that would embody Western politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. All eyes were on Paris. Depending on who was ...
In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, ...
Sitting in a Paris prison cell in 1794, midway through the French Revolution, the beautiful young aristocrat Theresa Cabarrus wrote a despairing — and bitter — letter to her lover, telling him she ...
While historical record includes a wealth of evidence that backs up negative attitudes towards the gathering masses, it is also chockful of individuals who were behaving badly too and yet they tend to ...
Reading an article on Maximilien Robespierre published in the New York Review of Books (23 June 2022) has led me to reflect (or more accurately, further reflect) on both my short time as an active ...
Robespierre, the monster of the French Revolution has been given a moden diagnosis. Photo: Sabin Paul Croce/Flickr A defender of the poor who upheld the values of French Revolution or a monster who ...
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