http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/28/1794-maximilien-robespierre-saint-just-jacobins/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:03:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/28/1794-maximilien-robespierre-saint-just-jacobins/#comment-2201 ExecutedToday.com » 1793: Olympe de Gouges, a head of her time Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:01:41 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=340#comment-2201 [...] But the natural-born gadfly didn’t pick her battles with injustice, and the Terror was a bad period to be indiscriminate. Like some of her Girondist associates, she risked the Paris mob’s wrath by openly opposing Louis XVI’s execution — right in character, Olympe was down on the whole idea of the death penalty — and she carried principle into foolhardiness by printing broadsides savaging Robespierre. [...] [...] But the natural-born gadfly didn’t pick her battles with injustice, and the Terror was a bad period to be indiscriminate. Like some of her Girondist associates, she risked the Paris mob’s wrath by openly opposing Louis XVI’s execution — right in character, Olympe was down on the whole idea of the death penalty — and she carried principle into foolhardiness by printing broadsides savaging Robespierre. [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/28/1794-maximilien-robespierre-saint-just-jacobins/#comment-2074 ExecutedToday.com » 1793: Louis XVI Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:22:07 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=340#comment-2074 [...] Robespierre made a striking case for executing Louis rooted in his — Robespierre’s — [...] [...] Robespierre made a striking case for executing Louis rooted in his — Robespierre’s — [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/28/1794-maximilien-robespierre-saint-just-jacobins/#comment-1668 ExecutedToday.com » 1794: Not Thomas Paine Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:48:50 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=340#comment-1668 [...] this would have been a short reprieve, had not Jacobin rule (and rulers) promptly [...] [...] this would have been a short reprieve, had not Jacobin rule (and rulers) promptly [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/28/1794-maximilien-robespierre-saint-just-jacobins/#comment-1663 ExecutedToday.com » 1794: Georges Danton and his followers Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:45:50 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=340#comment-1663 [...] of his last turn on that stage — strutting, jesting,** boastful to the very end, prophesying (accurately) Robespierre’s imminent demise. He was the last to lose his head, having seen Desmoulins and [...] [...] of his last turn on that stage — strutting, jesting,** boastful to the very end, prophesying (accurately) Robespierre’s imminent demise. He was the last to lose his head, having seen Desmoulins and [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/28/1794-maximilien-robespierre-saint-just-jacobins/#comment-1654 ExecutedToday.com » 1794: Andre Chenier, poet Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:38:39 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=340#comment-1654 [...] the backstory to one of the tales in Balzac’s La Comedie Humaine, a grocer who annoys one of Robespierre’s associates is also among this day’s batch and arouses more notice than the man of [...] [...] the backstory to one of the tales in Balzac’s La Comedie Humaine, a grocer who annoys one of Robespierre’s associates is also among this day’s batch and arouses more notice than the man of [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/28/1794-maximilien-robespierre-saint-just-jacobins/#comment-1653 ExecutedToday.com » 1794: Loizerolles and others for the Conspiracy of the Prisons Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:38:18 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=340#comment-1653 [...] “conspiracy” was really a cover story for Robespierre’s boys to wield their purifying torch against prisons and (of course) tighten the grip of [...] [...] “conspiracy” was really a cover story for Robespierre’s boys to wield their purifying torch against prisons and (of course) tighten the grip of [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/28/1794-maximilien-robespierre-saint-just-jacobins/#comment-1652 ExecutedToday.com » 1922: Six Greek former ministers of state Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:37:51 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=340#comment-1652 [...] of the offending monarchist government, a bloody thoroughness the New York Times compared to Robespierre. Western governments temporarily broke off [...] [...] of the offending monarchist government, a bloody thoroughness the New York Times compared to Robespierre. Western governments temporarily broke off [...]

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