The problem for Robespierre's biographer was best stated by the 19th-century historian John Wilson Croker. "Of no one of whom so much has been written is so little known," Croker boldly asserted, ...

Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre by Jonathan Israel (Princeton) The French Revolution jump-started modern political ...

‘Assassin’s Creed Unity’ portrays the French Revolution, but has it exaggerated the guilt of leader of the Revolution Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre? (AP) More than 200 years after ...

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr 304pp, Chatto & Windus, £20 As Maximilien Robespierre was taken through the streets of Paris to the guillotine on the morning of July ...

Like most revolutions, the popular uprising in France in 1789 contained within itself the seeds of its own destruction. In fact, some historians have argued that the rottenness at the core of the ...

While historical record includes a wealth of evidence that backs up negative attitudes towards the gathering masses, it is also chockful of individuals who were behaving badly too and yet they tend to ...

Position and influence of Robespierre — Causes of his power — His incorruptibility — His fanaticism — His accusation against Fabre — His character and policy Robespierre has been often mentioned as a ...

A pair of researchers who gave the French revolutionary Robespierre a disputed 3D makeover raised the possibility Friday that the man best known for unleashing the ...

It is tempting to take sides for or against the characters in history. It is usually just as much fun, afterwards, to go back and revise these judgements: to find the flaws in the heroes and to ...