Maximilien Robespierre

What happens when a country’s commoner population is worn-out, hungry and overtaxed by their King? And the peasants and commoners outnumber your ruling classes three to one? When they organize themselves because they are just tired of being hungry and watching as their children starve to death? You can only push your subjects for so long before they plan a revolt. The French Revolution was brought on by many factors but mostly because the king was out of touch. Beginning in the late 1600s Europe…

What Makes a Revolution Succeed? The American and French Revolutions were momentous occasions in a time of change and exploration of the world. The Enlightenment was in full swing and the works of Voltaire, Locke, and Rousseau were widely preached across Europe and began to spread overseas. These ideals of freedom and equality resonated with the common man of Europe and the call for change was imminent. This lead to the American and French Revolutions and began an entire new era of Western…

led the people of France into one of the most oppressive and terrifying reigns in history. The guillotine was invented by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin and took over 40,000 lives at its blade, perhaps most famously Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and Maximilien Robespierre. The guillotine came at a perfect time for the leaders of the French Revolution, allowing them to commit mass executions in a relatively quick and painless manner. Their increasing bloodlust would drive them to use the device until…

Paris, France There are many sites to see all over the world that are very interesting and have a lot of history behind them. For example, the pyramids in Egypt and Big Ben in London, England. Lets focus on just one part of the world that I find very fascinating. This place is called Paris. Paris is located in France and is actually the capital. Paris is well known for many things such as the Eiffel Tower, shopping, Art, and many more things. In this paper, I plan on going into great detail…

Being a good leader is hard to explain, but the characteristics are easy to find in people everywhere. Nelson Mandela and Napoleon Bonaparte grew up very differently, but eventually got to the same place as leaders of different countries. When comparing two totally different people like Napoleon Bonaparte and Nelson Mandela, it’s easy to see that Nelson Mandela was the better leader. Nelson Mandela was born in Mvezo, Transkei on July 18, 1918. He attended primary school in the city Qunu where…

the island, Jack is removing all democratic order and leaving the boys in a state of chaos, where there are no rules or moral authority. This is also seen in history during Maximilien Robespierre’s Reign of Terror in 1793, when he was elected to lead the National Convention. After the execution of King Louis XVI, Robespierre and many radicals guillotined anyone they deemed “counter-revolutionary”. In just ten months, forty thousand people were executed. The removal of King Louis XVI’s…

This is widely believed because he was not directly responsible for spearheading the French Revolution like Maximilien de Robespierre or even his mentor Paul Barras. While this is true, it can be said that Napoleon was eventually “transformed” into a Jacobin revolutionary by Barras in the year 1793. Additionally, he was imprisoned for a short time while acting as artillery…

attempted to fulfill the principles of ‘liberty, fraternity and equality’ by ensuring that citizen rights were upheld and that those who were wealthy could not exploit the poor. However, over time many of those invested in the revolution such as Maximilien Robespierre believed that a period of state sanctioned terror was necessary to enact these policies/laws. In doing so, these men believed that striking fear and disposing of all those who did not completely support their revolutionary ideas…

The question ‘What is terrorism?’ can be answered in a varying number of ways. A variety of scholars have attempted to define the term, each with differences but with more similarities. To define it in its most simple format, it is ‘the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims’ . Wyn Rees defines it as ‘a particular type of action, in which violence is employed for a political purpose. It is conducted by non-state actors against non-combatants, with the aim of creating…

suspected of being enemies of the Revolution. In Paris a wave of executions followed. In the provinces, representatives on mission and surveillance committees instituted local terrors. During the Terror, the Committee of Public Safety, of which Maximilien de Robespierre was the most prominent member, exercised virtual dictatorial control over the French government. During the Reign of Terror, at least 300,000 suspects were arrested; 17,000 were officially executed, and perhaps 10,000 died in…