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Hace 5 días · Maximilien Robespierre en Muy Interesante. Por qué hay un cocodrilo en la catedral de Sevilla y otras curiosidades sobre el templo gótico más grande del mundo.
Hace 2 días · Maximillien Robespierre, a leading Jacobin deputy in the Convention, had originally opposed the trial, believing that to try the King was to imply the possibility of his innocence. Nevertheless, once it was under way, Robespierre took the lead in arguing that on trial was not "the man Louis Capet" but the institution of the monarchy .
Hace 4 días · His death was equally painful. During his arrest he was shot in the jaw, and after lying in agony for 17 hours was executed by guillotine, but not before the executioner ripped away the bandages holding his jaw together, prompting a ‘hideous roar of pain’ (p. 220).
Hace 5 días · Having carried the day in the Jacobin Club, Robespierre rose to speak the next day in the Convention, where he attacked members of the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security, until now his closest collaborators, for their extreme use of the Terror.
Hace 4 días · Maximilien Robespierre was one of the most well-known figures of the French Revolution. He presided over the Reign of Terror and the executions of thousands of perceived enemies of the French Republic, before meeting their same fate. He was born on May 6, 1758, in Artois.
Hace 4 días · France - Revolution, Terror, Guillotine: After their victory in expelling the Girondins, Parisian militants “regenerated” their own sectional assemblies by purging local moderates, while radicals such as Jacques-René Hébert and Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette tightened their grip on the Paris Commune.
Hace 5 días · Popkin’s book is the latest in a well-established tradition of narrative histories of the French Revolution that in the English language goes back to Thomas Carlyle’s French Revolution: A History published in 1837. To focus on more recent decades, Popkin’s excellent new work stands comfortably alongside William Doyle’s Oxford History of the French Revolution and Peter McPhee’s ...
