Title | : | Maximilien Robespierre |
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Author | : | Charles F. Horne |
Release | : | 2024-06-21 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs, Books |
Size | : | 591085 |
Maximilien Isidore Robespierre, the leader of the most violent of those theorizers who overthrew the French monarchy, the exponent of all that deep-rooted hatred which the commoners of France, as the result of long centuries of oppression, harbored against their king, nobles, and clergy; Robespierre, who ruled the infant republic during her first bold defiance of united Europe, yet whose name has become, even among his countrymen, a symbol of horror, was born at Arras, in 1758. |