Title: How Does Robespierre Justify the Use of Terror? Would Some People Still Agree with His Ideas? Essay - 678 Words
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How Does Robespierre Justify the Use of Terror? Would Some People Still Agree with His Ideas?
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Content: Robespierre was raised by two aunts. In 1769, he won for himself a scholarship to Louis-le-Grand. There he excelled as a student, especially in the area of classical languages. But his real calling was political philosophy. He read the essays of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and other philosophes. Throughout his life, much of Robespierre's political thinking can be brought back to Rousseau's ideology. From early in his life, Robespierre apposed violence. While he worked as a judge in rural France, Robespierre was upset when his job made him sentence a convicted killer to death. He quit his position as judge because of this. Even in the early stages of the revolution Robespierre was pleased that the revolt in which he participated had been able to be successful without the evil of bloodshed.