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This 3 page paper discusses a possible defense for Robespierre, the man known as "Master of the Terror" during the French Revolution. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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paper takes a different approach and defends Robespierres actions. The French Revolution Historians generally see the French Revolution as occurring in three separate stages (Hooker, 1996). The first "occurred between
1789 and 1792" and was the era in which the Declaration of the Rights of Man appeared; this "first revolution" was concerned with addressing the grievances of the Third Estate
(non-nobility) as represented in the Declaration (Hooker, 1996). The second period began in the summer of 1792 and "saw the downfall of all the liberal, middle class leaders of the
Revolution and the rise to power of radical revolutionaries" (Hooker, 1996). This was also known as the counter-revolution; the radicals "saw themselves as champions of the common person against the
interests of both the aristocracy and the wealthy middle class" (Hooker, 1996). (We should note that the revolutionaries did not generally have the sympathy of the aristocracies of either France
or other European nations, which is not surprising.) At any rate, it was to continue the progress of the first part of the revolution that brought about the second-and the
Reign of Terror. Robespierre appears to have been a zealot whose own vision and desire for truth was so strong that it led him into disaster. He was "the leader
of the twelve?man Committee of Public Safety elected by the National Convention, and which effectively governed France at the height of the radical phase of the revolution" (Halsell, 1997). Once
a liberal thinker who admired Rousseaus ideas, he grew impatient with others and with the progress of the revolution (Halsell, 1997). While the Committee of Public Safety established policies that
"stabilized the French economy and began the formation of the very successful French army," it also "unleashed the reign of terror" (Halsell, 1997). We have Robespierres own words to
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