In Revolutionary France, Maximilien Robespierre emerged as a passionate advocate for the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. But despite his initial ...
Like most revolutions, the popular uprising in France in 1789 contained within itself the seeds of its own destruction. In fact, some historians have argued that the rottenness at the core of the ...
LONDON (Reuters) - He was riddled with jaundice, pock-marked, bloody and twitchy. A new scientific analysis shows French revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre was probably suffering from an ...
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 ...
French experts have discovered the remains of as many as 500 people guillotined during the French Revolution in the walls of a listed building in Paris. The bodies of the famous guillotinés, who ...
The French state has stopped an auction of manuscripts written by French revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre in Paris. The state preempted the sale of the collection, responding to an appeal from ...
Biography: Robespierre is one of those radical political figures of history whose name typically conjures up images of Cromwell, Hitler and Mao fused together. If Maximilien Robespierre saw himself as ...