Robespierre

[rohbz-peer, -pee-air, raw-bes-pyer]

noun

1. Maximilien François Marie Isidore de 1758–94, French lawyer and revolutionary leader.

Robespierre

/ ˈrəʊbzpjɛə, rɔbzpjɛr /

noun

1. Maximilien François Marie Isidore de . (maksimiljɛ̃ frɑ̃swa mari izidɔr də). 1758–94, French revolutionary and Jacobin leader: established the Reign of Terror as a member of the Committee of Public Safety (1793–94): executed in the coup d'état of Thermidor (1794)

Robespierre

1. A French political leader of the eighteenth century. Robespierre, a Jacobin, was one of the most radical leaders of the French Revolution. He was in charge of the government during the Reign of Terror, when thousands of persons were executed without trial. After a public reaction against his extreme policies, he was executed without trial.

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None of the figures Mr. Hardman discusses, including Maximilien Robespierre, the provincial lawyer known for his inflexible character and unity of purpose, could break the pattern.

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Prominent French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre met the same fate a year later.

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It is where Louis XVI died by guillotine in 1793 and where French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre met the same fate a year later.

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Robespierre’s execution kicked off the Thermidorian Reaction, in which France returned to more conservative policies.

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More disturbing, Harris’s radicalism leads him on more than one occasion to embrace an ends-justify-the-violent-means ethic of the sort espoused by utopian revolutionaries from Robespierre to Stalin to Mao.

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