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 ...

While historical record includes a wealth of evidence that backs up negative attitudes towards the gathering masses, it is also chockful of individuals who were behaving badly too and yet they tend to ...

The short, violent life of Maximilien Robespierre was a mass of contradictions crowned with a supreme irony: this architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

Reading an article on Maximilien Robespierre published in the New York Review of Books (23 June 2022) has led me to reflect (or more accurately, further reflect) on both my short time as an active ...

‘Assassin’s Creed Unity’ portrays the French Revolution, but has it exaggerated the guilt of leader of the Revolution Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre? (AP) More than 200 years after ...

In a game of word association French Revolution would rapidly be met with “guillotine”. Such is the event’s popular image, especially in Anglo-Saxon culture, where it remains characterised by guts and ...

Maximilien Robespierre is an unpromising subject for a biographer, who has just five years to work with. Little is known about him until 1789, when he became one of the children of a Revolution that ...