When we were done, we talked about how the book had inadvertently convinced us that Maximilien Robespierre was on the autism spectrum. (This, because both of us slightly are, and we recognized the ...

We often make historical parallels here. History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme, as clever people say. And sometimes it hiccups. Here is a hiccup. We start with the moral and political ...

All eyes were on Paris. Depending on who was looking, Maximilien Robespierre was either a hero or a villain. Robespierre, once an obscure lawyer from northern France, had in four short years ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

On Sunday, March 12, the Osenat House auctioned the only surviving letter from Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) to Georges Danton (1759-1794). It was sold to a French collector for €218,750.

In Revolutionary France, Maximilien Robespierre emerged as a passionate advocate for the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. But despite his initial commitment to justice, overreach made ...

Sein Vater, ein Anwalt in Arras, scheint kein sehr verantwortungsbewusster Mann gewesen zu sein: Er heiratet erst, als Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre bereits unterwegs ist. Als die Mutter ...

Reading an article on Maximilien Robespierre published in the New York Review of Books (23 June 2022) has led me to reflect (or more accurately, further reflect) on both my short time as an ...

In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines ...