# Robespierre — What’s Wrong with the World character guide

> Robespierre in What’s Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the Robespierre

**First appearance:** 0001-what-s-wrong-with-the-world

## Who they are

The French revolutionary leader, cited as a figure of terror and idealism.

## Relationships

### [Burke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_s_wrong_with_the_world_se/characters/burke)

_rivalry_

Burke and Robespierre represent opposing revolutionary and conservative ideologies in direct conflict.

## In the story

### [The Unfinished Temple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_s_wrong_with_the_world_se/chapters/v-the-unfinished-temple)

Mentioned as an example of the revolutionary ideal of honourable poverty, admired for being poor when he might have been rich.

### [I: The Empire of the Insect](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_s_wrong_with_the_world_se/chapters/i-the-empire-of-the-insect)

Mentioned as representing the theistic side in the quarrel over the French Revolution, appealing to abstract and eternal justice.

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