The Conquest of Bread · Character

Robespierre

A revolutionary leader cited in political debates.

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Cited for urging the Jacobins to discuss his treatise on the English Constitution while famine ravaged France in 1793, showing neglect of the people's needs.

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With Mignet (psychological): Mignet, as a historian, analyzed Robespierre's role in the French Revolution with a mix of admiration and critical detachment. With Danton (rivalry): Danton and Robespierre were revolutionary allies who became bitter enemies, leading to Danton's execution during the Reign of Terror. With Blanquists (psychological): Blanquists, as revolutionary conspirators, looked to Robespierre as a historical model for insurrectionary dictatorship.

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Mignet
psychological · ambivalent
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Danton
rivalry · negative
Blanquists
psychological · positive

Mignet
Mignet, as a historian, analyzed Robespierre's role in the French Revolution with a mix of admiration and critical detachment.
Danton
Danton and Robespierre were revolutionary allies who became bitter enemies, leading to Danton's execution during the Reign of Terror.
Blanquists
Blanquists, as revolutionary conspirators, looked to Robespierre as a historical model for insurrectionary dictatorship.

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Expropriation
Cited for urging the Jacobins to discuss his treatise on the English Constitution while famine ravaged France in 1793, showing neglect of the people's needs.
The Wage System and the Coming Revolution
Mentioned as leading a faction that guillotined others and was later executed, illustrating the failure of revolutionary governments.
VI
Implied in the discussion of the National Convention's guillotine executions against peasants withholding grain.

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