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Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - Destruction Of The Girondins
With the great question settled by the king's execution, the struggle between Robespierre and the Girondins entered upon a more acute sta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - Destruction Of The Girondins
With the great question settled by the king's execution, the struggle between Robespierre and the Girondins entered upon a more acute sta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - The Terror
Terror is only justice that is prompt, severe and inflexible. (Maximilien Robespierre) Some have argued that Robespierre's role in the Te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - The Terror
Some have argued that Robespierre's role in the Terror was but minor, and that he was a subordinate player within the Committee of Public...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - Robespierre's Opposition To War With Austria
On December 18, 1791, Robespierre made a speech that marked a new epoch in his life. Brissot de Warville, the dame politique of the Giron...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - The Great Question Regarding The Execution Of Louis Xvi
All personal disputes, however, gave way by the month of December 1792 before the great question of the king's trial, and here Robespierr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - Robespierre's Downfall
At last, on July 26, Robespierre appeared, for the first time for more than four weeks, in the Convention and delivered a harangue, lasti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - Foundation Of The Committee Of Public Safety
The royalist insurrections in Lyon and counter-revolutionary support elsewhere, coupled with the military reverses and increasing financi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - Early Politics
He completed his law studies with distinction and was admitted as a lawyer in 1781. He returned to Arras to seek practice and to struggle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - Robespierre's Downfall
At last, on July 26, Robespierre appeared, for the first time for more than four weeks, in the Convention and delivered a harangue, lasti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - Robespierre's Opposition To War With Austria
On December 18, 1791, Robespierre made a speech that marked a new epoch in his life. Brissot de Warville, the dame politique of the Giron...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - Early Politics
He completed his law studies with distinction and was admitted as a lawyer in 1781. He returned to Arras to seek practice and to struggle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - The Great Question Regarding The Execution Of Louis Xvi
All personal disputes, however, gave way by the month of December 1792 before the great question of the king's trial, and here Robespierr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - Foundation Of The Committee Of Public Safety
The royalist insurrection in Lyon exasperated the men who were working for the Republic, and the armies who were fighting for her. On Jul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - Family And Early Life
He was born in Arras, France. A myth persists that his family was of Irish descent, having emigrated from Ireland at the time of the Prot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maximilien Robespierre: Encyclopedia Ii - Maximilien Robespierre - Family And Early Life
He was born in Arras, France. A myth persists that his family was of Irish descent, having emigrated from Ireland at the time of the Prot...   » Read the article