Colin Jones, “Maximilien Robespierre, Melancholic Victim of his own Virtue?” (2015)
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H-France Salon, vol. 7 (2015), Issue 7, #1
Conference Presentation at Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies (Colorado Springs, CO)
Panel "Victims, Compensation, Melancholy: Shaping the Legacies of Revolution and Violence in France, 1794-1977"
18 April 2015
MP3 audio version of presentation available at H-France Salon: h-france.net/Sa....
His mindset in giving the speech on 8 Thermidor was this: "I'm gonna say what needs to be said, I'm gonna show the way forward, even though doing so will get me killed.' In other words, it was a sacrificial speech. Thus the reference to drinking hemlock later on in the Jacobin Club. He was very brave, and gave his life trying to serve his country and cause to the last moment. I admire him greatly.
Thank you so much for those words.
lol, he was a sanctimonious authoritarian whose unattainable ideals destroyed france.
Excellent lecture. Very good insight to look at how the audience to Robspierre might have changed rather than focusing just on Robspierres mind, techniques and agenda. My big regret is that when I was at Exeter University Professor Jones' special subject on the French Revolution wasn't available in my final year. His book on France from 1715 to 1799 is well worth looking at for ideas of the context of the French Revolution and is a very good general read if you are interested in eighteenth century Europe.
Friedrich Engels: [The Reign of Terror] was "rendered entirely superfluous by the victory of Fleurus on 24 June, 1794, which freed not only the frontiers but Belgium, and indirectly delivered over the left bank of the Rhine to France. Thus Robespierre also became superfluous and fell on July 27."
There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror-that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves. ----- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Ducking hell that’s how it should be taught/viewed. Thank you/him for saying what needed to be said
This is what I think about many of these tragic events in history. They can’t hold a candle to imperialism/fascism in all its governmental forms (meaning government/heirarchy in general
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Have you seen or read this play by Buchner? He died when he was 23 years old.
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a fantastic lecture!!!
very sphinx like mr jones 👍
nice lecture bro
What was Robespierre given to eat then? Im intrigued now
in every portrait of him he looks different. i know that the death mask is fake
but the portraits and the bust that was made back then , i see different faces
Sarcoidosis changes your face vastly because of scars and deformities that remain. There is evidence pointing to him having had that illness, hence he was so frequently sick and not present in the convention.
Robespierre's megalomania led him to completely underestimate the force of the reaction to come. He may have thought the deputees were definitively neutralized because of the fear he inspired them .
Fouché, coming back from Lyon earlier on in spring (as Robespierre wanted him to justify his behaviour and action in Lyon), was struck by the paralysis and catatony in which the deputees had fallen. Fouché, who was much more clever and intuitive than his opponent as to human psychology, knew that from fear anger can boil up and burst into action. Relentlessly and in the background, he used that tool to overthrow Robespierre.
Victima de su propia virtud