Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre

By: David Peter Jordan

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Hardcover | 15 July 1989 | Edition Number 2

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As it changed forever the political landscape of the modern world, the French Revolution was driven by a new type of personality: the confirmed, self-aware revolutionary. Maximilien Robespierre originated the role and embodied its ideological essence and extremes; the self that he projected to the people was equated with the ideals for which he strove. In creating this intellectual biography of so enigmatic a figure, David Jordan has stressed the words of the man about himself. With great imagination and insight, Jordan places Robespierre's self-conceptualization within the context of events and explains how Robespierre "The Incorruptible"--a man seen by contemporaries as virtuous--could not only equate justice with vengeance and demand it of the people, but also stand as its symbol before the world.

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
The Memory of a Tyrant
The Revolutionary Revealed
Representative of the People
Robespierre the Orator
The War Debates
Conversion to Insurrection
The King's Trial
Purging the Convention
Robespierre the Ideologue
The Committee of Public Safety
A Mortal Blow to Fanaticism
Thermidor
The Incorruptible
Epilogue
Appendix: Portraits of Robespierre
Notes
List of Works Cited
Index
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