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Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre fervently campaigned for the voting rights of all men and their unimpeded admission to the National Guard. Additionally, he advocated the right to petition, the right to bear arms in self-defence, and the abolition of the…
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culture · French revolutionary, lawyer and politician (1758–1794) · politician · lawyer · journalist · revolutionary · also Maximilien Robespierre, Maximilien-François-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre, The Incorruptible, Robespierre
Born 6 May 1758 · Died 28 July 1794 · Q44197
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s recognition of the existence of God and the immortality of the human soul. The following day, he delivered a detailed presentation to the Convention on religious and moral principles intertwined with republican ideals, introducing festivals dedicated to the Supreme Being and other virtues. On 8 June, during the
We are under the knife of Robespierre and Marat, those who would agitate the people.
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“s recognition of the existence of God and the immortality of the human soul. The following day, he delivered a detailed presentation to the Convention on religious and moral principles intertwined with republican ideals, introducing festivals dedicated to the Supreme Being and other virtues. On 8 June, during the”
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“We are under the knife of Robespierre and Marat, those who would agitate the people.”
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“The current French constitution is a republic with a monarch. She is therefore neither a monarchy nor a republic. She is both.”
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Of selected manuscripts, including speeches, draft newspaper articles, drafts of reports to be read at the Convention, a fragment of the speech of 8 Thermidor, and a letter on virtue and happiness, kept by the Le Bas fam
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Marc Bloch, a French historian, sighed disillusioned (a year before he decided to join the French Resistance): "Robespierrists, anti-robespierrists
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Died 1794-07-28.
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“let all of Europe league against us and Europe will be defeated.”
Career landmark: President of the National Convention (1794–1794).
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“L'autorité divine qui ordonne aux rois d'être justes, défend aux peuples d'être esclaves.”
“It is by the progress of philosophy and by the spectacle of the happiness of France, that you will extend the empire of our revolution, and not by the force of arms and by the calamities of war.”
“When will the interests of governments be amalgamated with those of the people? Never!”
“Let tyranny reign a single day, and there will be no more patriots the day after. Yet one or the other has to yield.”
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
“Death, so much Death! And the wretches cast it upon me. What a memory I shall leave behind if this lasts. Life is a burden to me”
Career landmark: President of the National Convention (1793–1793).
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Studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, law degree (1769–1781).
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Born 1758-05-06.
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