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5 Surprising Facts about Robespierre
5 Surprising Facts about Robespierre
1. Robespierre did not agree with the death penalty
2. Robespierre was never officially head of state
3. He let his best friend Camille Desmoulins be guillotined
4. Robespierre wanted to start a cult
5. Robespierre became the scapegoat for his colleagues
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Content: He also pointed out that it was difficult to present murders as something horrible when the law considers death as a possible punishment. For him, an inmate is defeated, powerless, and a society would be barbaric to kill a man that presents no threat to it. It seems that Robespierre made a difference to how society treated common criminals, but also violences committed on the political level; ensuing a deadly fight which ended the tyranny of the monarchy and brought about democracy. He accepted the people’s violence in its battle for liberty, like the storming of the fortress of La Bastille the 14 th of July 1789. The storming of the Bastille by Houël. Sourced from Wikipedia
When Robespierre was at the height of his influence in 1793 and 1794, the country was in a situation of war against all of its neighbours. Add to this a civil war with the Catholic monarchists and some of the more centrist republicans, and a constant risk of plots in Paris. Robespierre and many others revolutionaries believed this situation justified a state of exception, a suspension of human rights only for the time needed for the Republic to be saved. The debate is still open today about whether these measures were necessary in this context…
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