Biography: Robespierre is one of those radical political figures of history whose name typically conjures up images of Cromwell, Hitler and Mao fused together. If Maximilien Robespierre saw ...

Ruth Scurr has done an enormous service by producing a collection of extracts from Thomas Carlyle’s powerful narrative The French Revolution to add to her earlier biography of Robespierre in ...

THERE are very few figures who polarise opinion quite like the French Revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre.

ROBESPIERRE, one of the great typical, symbolic figures of history, by reason of his very typicalness has come to have in the mind of the less considerate reader a kind of false unity and ...

Democratic revolutionaries always confront the same problem: how to replace the old order without replicating its flaws. A new biography of the French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre's reveals ...

Democratic revolutionaries always confront the same problem: how to replace the old order without replicating its flaws. The French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre's failure to resolve that ...