Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two and a quarter centuries after he was guillotined on what is now Place de la Concorde in Paris, Maximilien ...

Childhood loss, emotional isolation and rigid virtue may have helped shape Robespierre's rise and bloody fall.

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Colin Jones, Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, to discuss his new book, The Fall of ...

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr 304pp, Chatto & Windus, £20 As Maximilien Robespierre was taken through the streets of Paris to the guillotine on the morning of July ...

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 ...

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 ...