Some years ago, in Paris, my son and I read Christopher Hibbert’s history of the French Revolution. When we were done, we talked about how the book had inadvertently convinced us that Maximilien ...

Ruth Scurr (ed.) Carlyle’s The French Revolution (London and New York: Continuum, 2010) and Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (London: Vintage, 2006) The boy kneels in ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two and a quarter centuries after he was guillotined on what is now Place de la Concorde in Paris, Maximilien ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In Revolutionary France, Maximilien Robespierre emerged as a passionate ...

THERE are very few figures who polarise opinion quite like the French Revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to ...

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