# Robespierre — The Conquest of Bread character guide

> Robespierre in The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0001-the-conquest-of-bread

## Who they are

A revolutionary leader cited in political debates.

## Relationships

### [Mignet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/characters/mignet)

_psychological_

Mignet, as a historian, analyzed Robespierre's role in the French Revolution with a mix of admiration and critical detachment.

### [Danton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/characters/danton)

_rivalry_

Danton and Robespierre were revolutionary allies who became bitter enemies, leading to Danton's execution during the Reign of Terror.

### [Blanquists](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/characters/blanquists)

_psychological_

Blanquists, as revolutionary conspirators, looked to Robespierre as a historical model for insurrectionary dictatorship.

## In the story

### [Expropriation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/chapters/ii)

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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/chapters/iii)

Mentioned as leading a faction that guillotined others and was later executed, illustrating the failure of revolutionary governments.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/chapters/vi)

Implied in the discussion of the National Convention's guillotine executions against peasants withholding grain.

## Links

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