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Louis de Saint-Just
Louis de Saint-Just , 1767-94, French revolutionary. A member of the Convention from 1792, he became a favorite of Maximilien Robespierre and was (1793-94) a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety (see Reign of Terror ). As commissioner (1793) with the army of the Rhine, he contributed to... Read more |
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French Empire
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French Riviera
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Thermidor
Thermidor , 11th month of the French Revolutionary calendar . The coup of 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794) marked the downfall of Robespierre and the end of the Reign of Terror . The men who came into power were members of the old bourgeoisie and the newly rich who had profited from speculation and... Read more |
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Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot , 1753-1823, French revolutionary, known as the organizer of victory for his role in the French Revolutionary Wars . A military engineer by training, Carnot became the military genius of the Revolution and was chiefly responsible for the success of the French in the... Read more |
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Reign of Terror
Reign of Terror 1793-94, period of the French Revolution characterized by a wave of executions of presumed enemies of the state. Directed by the Committee of Public Safety, the Revolutionary government's Terror was essentially a war dictatorship, instituted to rule the country in a national... Read more |
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Cordeliers
Cordeliers , political club of the French Revolution. Founded (1790) as the Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, it was called after its original meeting place, the suppressed monastery of the Cordeliers (Franciscan Recollects). It provided a political base for Georges ... Read more |
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Joseph Fouche
Joseph Fouché , b. 1759 or 1763, d. 1820, French revolutionary and minister of police. A teacher in the schools of the Oratorian order, he joined the French Revolution and was elected to the Convention (1792). There he sided at first with the Girondists , but then became a Jacobin . As a... Read more |
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Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de
...1758–94) French revolutionary...justified by French defeats. With...discredited, Robespierre led the republican...the Reign of Terror, in which hundreds...urgent after French victories in war, and Robespierre was arrested... |
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Reign of Terror
Reign of Terror (June 1793–July 1794) Phase of the French Revolution. It...the Jacobins under Robespierre. Against a background...July 27, 1794, the Terror ended with a coup...Convention, when Robespierre and leading Jacobins... |
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French Revolution, The: A History
French Revolution, The: A History, by...the king and queen, the reign of terror, the fall of Robespierre, and extends to 5 Oct. 1795, when...Mirabeau, Lafayette, Danton, Robespierre). |
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French Revolution
French Revolution. In June...Louis XVI to summon the French Estates General. The...opponents (‘the Terror’). The Jacobin leader Maximilien Robespierre was deposed and executed in July...overthrow of the popish French monarchy with the defeat... |
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Jacobins
...Jacobins Political club of the French Revolution. In 1789 Breton...throughout France. By 1792, Robespierre had seized control of the...instrument of the Reign of Terror. It collapsed after Robespierre's downfall in 1794. |
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France
...history of Anglo-French rivalry. Philip II regained...of battles for the French succession. By 1422...incapable of reform.The French Revolution (1789...execution of the king, and Robespierre's brutal Reign of Terror. The Directory ended... |
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Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy
...risen to high rank in the French Revolution, is repelled by...Diane just as news arrives of Robespierre's death and the end of the reign of terror. This summary only hints at...Lillie Eldridge as the shouting terror, Scarlotte, that I chiefly... |
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Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de
Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de (1758–94) French revolutionary. Robespierre was the leader of the...the National Assembly. Robespierre was guillotined for his role in the Terror, although he had objected... |
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terror
...Chicago mob. ∎ (the Terror) the period of the French Revolution between mid...faction, dominated by Robespierre, ruthlessly executed...Also called reign of terror. 2. (also holy terror) inf. a person, esp...presence, but holy ... |
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Terror, Reign of
Terror, Reign of A period of the FRENCH REVOLUTION that began...DE LA PLATIÈRE. The Terror was intensified in June...and DANTON had left ROBESPIERRE supreme. It ended the...arrest and execution of Robespierre. |
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the Terror
the Terror the period of the French Revolution between mid 1793 and July 1794 when the ruling Jacobin faction, dominated by Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94), ruthlessly executed anyone considered a threat to their regime; it ended with the fall and execution of ... |
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Jacobin
...formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793–4.The term...the Dominicans in Old French from their church in...the headquarters of the French revolutionary group. |
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...s name in his History of the French Revolution (1837), for the French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94), leader of the...Jacobins in the National Assembly. Robespierre initiated the Terror, but the following year he fell... |
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French
...May 1789, when the French government was already...of the Jacobins and Robespierre. Louis XVI's execution...1793 was followed by Robespierre's Reign of Terror (September 1793...Napoleon in 1799.French Wars of Religion a... |
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Committee of Public Safety
Committee of Public Safety a French governing body set up in April...later came under the influence of Robespierre, when it initiated the Terror. The Committee's power ended with the fall of Robespierre in 1794, and it was dissolved... |
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French Revolution
French Revolution (1789) The political...history. Various groups in French society opposed the ANCIEN...was followed by a Reign of Terror (September 1793–July 1794...JACOBINS, Cordeliers, ROBESPIERRE) fought for power. After... |
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Saint-Just, Louis Antoine Léon Florelle de
...1767–94) French Revolutionary...Guard when the FRENCH REVOLUTION began...great loyalty to ROBESPIERRE led to his appointment...organized the REIGN OF TERROR, and carried out...was executed with Robespierre. |
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Ending the Terror: The French Revolution after Robespierre.
...fickleness followed the fall of Robespierre, and Bronislaw Baczko discusses...fabrication of the rumour that Robespierre had wanted to marry the daughter...to Babeuf's view of the Terror as a scheme to depopulate...under the Directory. The Terror is seen as ... |
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Ending the Terror: The French Revolution after Robespierre. (book reviews)
...full chronological range of the French Revolution continues to exert...appeared some five years ago in a French-language edition. Non-specialists...of the opening years of the French Revolution. By contrast, Morris...had come to put an end to the Terror. The ... |
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HISTORY: Terror wears a sea-green coat Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the...
...reptilian. And since Robespierre presided over...period of the French Revolution...executions of the Terror (around 2...five months of Robespierre's ascendancy...both virtue and terror: virtue without...yourself that the ... |
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The ancestry of terrorism; From Robespierre to Osama bin Laden, terror has...
...infamous "reign of terror" during the French Revolution. The group...and led by Maximilien Robespierre controlled the revolutionary...40,000 others. If Robespierre was the first modern...exercised the power of the French state. In recent ... |
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution. Ruth Scurr. Chatto...pages. ISBN 0-701-17600-8. Robespierre (like Lenin, he is always known...the intellectual father of the French Terror yet he was 'meticulously unflamboyant... |
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution.(Book review)
...Revolution: the use of Terror. His enigmatic personality...Revolution. In 1789 Robespierre was a shy, unknown...immediately what made Robespierre special: 'That man...believes what he says.' Robespierre was a politician by...incorruptible politician. No ... |
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Hamel dynasty that survived Robespierre's reign of terror
...vengeance of a certain French revolutionary gentleman...Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-94). One...influential figures of the French Revolution (1789-95), Robespierre was a powerful figure...as the 'Reign of Terror'. The Hamel family... |
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Robespierre and the terror: Marisa Linton reviews the life and career of one...
...name. Although Robespierre, like most of the...from June 1793 to Robespierre's overthrow in...masters of the first French republic, which...ominously, as the Terror. The enigmatic figure of Robespierre takes us to the... |
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Robespierre's tail: the possibilities of justice after the terror.(Report)
...in rapid succession Robespierre and twenty-one of...meaning as the end of the Terror was not intended at the time; in fact, the Terror itself had yet to be...from the overthrow of Robespierre to the start of the...revisionist history of the ... |
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Days Like These 3 December 1792 MAXIMILIAN ROBESPIERRE, leader of the...
...sound policy to cement the republic? It is to engrave deeply into the hearts of all a contempt for royalty, and to strike terror into the partisans of the King. To place his crime before the world as a problem, his cause as the object of the most imposing... |
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