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Hace 1 día · 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 .
#OTD 8 June 1794 Maximilien Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
Hace 4 días · Augustin de Robespierre, the commissioner to the army, wrote to his brother Maximilien, by then virtual head of the government and one of the leading figures of the Reign of Terror, praising the “transcendent merit” of the young republican officer.
- Napoleon I, also called Napoléon Bonaparte, was a French military general and statesman. Napoleon played a key role in the French Revolution (1789–...
- Napoleon first seized political power in a coup d’état in 1799. The coup resulted in the replacement of the extant governing body—a five-member Dir...
- Napoleon served as first consul of France from 1799 to 1804. In that time, Napoleon reformed the French educational system, developed a civil code...
- After a series of military defeats in 1812–13, Napoleon was forced to abdicate the French throne on April 6, 1814. Napoleon returned to power in ea...
- No! “Le Petit Caporal” wasn’t petite—at least not by 19th-century standards. The estimated average height of a French man in 1820 was 5 feet 4 inch...
Hace 5 días · A collection of authentic narratives of the horrors committed by the revolutionary government of France under Marat and Robespierre. Written by eye-witnesses of the scenes. Tr. from the French.
Hace 4 días · On June 8, 1794, the streets of Paris and other French cities thrummed with an extraordinary energy for one of the weirder aspects of the French Revolution. Citizens gathered en masse to witness an event orchestrated by one of the French Revolution’s most enigmatic figures, Maximilien Robespierre.
Hace 1 día · À propos de : Colin Jones, La chute de Robespierre. 24 heures dans le Paris révolutionnaire, Fayard - Colin Jones replace dans sa contingence le récit du 9 thermidor an II (27 juillet 1794), jour du coup de force à la Convention nationale contre Robespierre et ses partisans, en écartant toute idée de conjuration ou de révolte populaire.
Hace 3 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.
