Who has money?Well, nobles who leave France have money, because they have a lot of property, particularly in areas like Brittany and in Burgundy and in Ile-de-France, around Paris. Well, that’s pretty much nonsense. Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre was born in Arras on 6 May 1758, the son of a lawyer. If he was to take part in our games, it was in order to direct them. This is Rouen in the Seine-Maritime,. No one loves armed missionaries. This is real. It depends on your view. Listen. That’s it. Until they know what to do with him, at one point he’s laying on a table and he points, with Saint-Just, they point to the declaration of the rights of man and of citizen. Maximilien Robespierre, in full Maximilien-François-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre, (born May 6, 1758, Arras, France—died July 28, 1794, Paris), radical Jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution. Here again, the areas that were counter-revolutionary, particularly up in Brittany and Poitou and those regions there, the big story was these major kinds of change. You’re seeing Citizen Marat nude in his bath. A friend of mine, who was a great historian, called Michel Vovelle, a long time ago did a book on dechristianization. People really kept their distance, whereas now if you live in Paris you kiss twice, or in the Sixteenth Arrondissement not at all; you merely shake hands. Two daughters, one who died, this is fairly normal, and Augustin, his brother, followed. So, okay, that’s fine. It’s not just that people all start getting together and say, “Let’s not swear to the Revolution. He was never a dramatic speaker, but it was as if he no longer wanted to be heard. So, this federalist revolt is against the Jacobins, a Parisian-centered, far-left interpretation of the French Revolution. It has never been self interest that has made you act or speak, only the general interest.” He identified with ordinary people and he ends up living in western Paris, a more prosperous part of Paris, but in the home of a carpenter on a street called the Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
If you carried pikes around, pikes at the Battle of Valmy, which you can read about — is the pikes of the Sans-Culottes that stopped the highly-professional armies of the enemies of the Revolution. Up there is the Creuse, the capital is Guéret. Maximilien Robespierre One, it was sort of a bloodletting by the very poor of their social betters. But in Brittany and in Normandy they did, massively. He also ordered for the closing of various churches, even going as far to occasionally raze the church steeples to the ground, citing that their design invoked the aristocracy and thus were "undemocratic. To do that, I decided to bring a prop. So, the Jacobins, most of them believed in the maximum, “the maximum,” which was a maximum on the price of bread. Because that’s exactly what they ended up with, of course, with Napoleon. The next morning they clip his hair back, as one did, so that the long hair would not in any way slow the blade of the guillotine. This is the Atlantic Pyrenees, the capital is Pau, et cetera, et cetera. These hedges, you see them also in the in the Manche in Normandy. Back to Robespierre — fumbling through his papers here to get to the appropriate point — they tried to kill Robespierre, of course, as the terror gets more organized. As the head of the Jacobin Club, Robespierre orchestrated the downfall of his political opponents the Girondins, and became the absolute leader of the French Revolutionary Government and the Terror. He was always well combed and powdered, the cleanest of dressing gowns, et cetera.He began to be a frequenter of the Jacobin Club. “I never did this horrible thing. At age eleven to the He became a lawyer, getting his degree in 1780 in Paris, a lawyer at the At the beginning, but only in the beginning, he did not believe in capital punishment; although, arguably those who agree with him would say that he saved the Revolution by meting out capital punishment. Following the revolution of 1789, Robespierre gained high rank in the French legislature and began work on the This led Robespierre, who had never previously done so, to question the monarchy.