Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre
Standard Name: Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore
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Textual Production | Mathilde Blind | She then turned to English to write a tragedy on the politically daring subject of Robespierre
, which remained unpublished. |
Textual Features | Frances Burney | Wollstonecraft
's tacit presence here extends beyond the portrait of Elinor. Juliet, it turns out, is fleeing from an intolerable marriage, like the heroine of The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria. English law condemns... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Florence Dixie | The poems represent several distinct genres: heroic historical poems, like The Death of Robespierre, a tale of Nigel Bruce (brother of Robert the Bruce
), and a death-song for another Scots hero, Wallace
... |
Other Life Event | Grace Elliott | She was caught, however, and committed to the Recollets in Versailles, where she occupied a large room that until recently had housed several hundred rabbits. She had her jewellery with her, and also her... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Grace Elliott | GE
concentrates on her Revolution experiences; the rest of her life-story remains untold. Her work bears the marks of its birth as oral history. She presents the French Revolution in black and white moral terms... |
Textual Features | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | She apologises to her readers in a foreword (written at Paris) for presenting the life-story of a liar, thief and forger, and for allowing him, too, to tell it himself. This man, Hector Ratichon, served... |
Textual Features | Pam Gems | In this drama PG
returns to the subject matter of her translation and adaptation The Danton Affair, made in 1986 from Przybyszewska
's 1930s play of the same title. In PG
's The Snow... |
Textual Production | Hilary Mantel | HM
's The Woman Who Died of Robespierre was published: a historical study of a woman destroyed by her obsession with writing a novel about Robespierre
. Her protagonist is an actual woman, whose trilogy... |
Literary Setting | Hilary Mantel | The novel takes place in Paris, primarily during the years of the revolution, beginning from 1787, when, as HM
sees it, three men, Camille Desmoulins
, Maximilien Robespierre
, and Georges-Jacques Danton
, seized... |
Literary Setting | Anne Marsh | The Professional Visits is set in Paris, during the nightmare of Robespierre
's Terror, and opens in July 1794, soon after the fall of the moderate Girondins, and ends dramatically on the execution of... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Moody | Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM
addresses Joseph Priestley
on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette
on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet
on... |
Textual Features | Mrs F. C. Patrick | In the course of a busy plot Augusta is abducted, but saves herself from a forced marriage (her mother, the instigator of this outrage, affects to think her married in the sight of Heaven) by... |
Literary Setting | Mary Robinson | This blends gender politics with national politics, but emphasises the former. Its heroine, Martha Bradford, dark, tough, witty, and affectionate, enacts accented versions of some of MR
's experiences. Her father prefers her fair, compliant... |
Textual Features | Mary Robinson | As well as MR
's account of her life, designed to mark her out as a romantic heroine and victim (and not immune from exaggeration and unreliability), this publication includes much of her other literary... |
politics | Germaine de Staël | Habitués of her salon included Lafayette
, Condorcet
, Narbonne
, Talleyrand
, and Thomas Jefferson
. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 21 |
Timeline
1786: Maximilien Robespierre in Discours sur les...
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1786
Maximilien Robespierre
in Discours sur les droits et les devoirs des bâtards sought to improve some of the civil rights of those born outside marriage, but denounced contraception as a secret crime against Nature.
April 1786: Maximilien Robespierre, speaking at the local...
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April 1786
Maximilien Robespierre
, speaking at the local academy of Arras, supported the admission of women into literary clubs.
15 February 1793: The feminist Condorcet submitted his plan...
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15 February 1793
The feminist Condorcet
submitted his plan for a new Constitution for France; it was rejected.
April 1793: The Committee of Public Safety was set up...
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April 1793
5 September 1793: The Reign of Terror began in earnest in Paris...
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5 September 1793
The Reign of Terror began in earnest in Paris with Billaud-Varenne
declaring in the National Convention
that terror would be the order of the day.
5 April 1794: In France, Robespierre had his two erstwhile...
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5 April 1794
In France, Robespierre
had his two erstwhile friends and associates Desmoulins
and Danton
guillotined.
27 July 1794: The guillotining of Robespierre signalled...
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27 July 1794
The guillotining of Robespierre
signalled an end to the Terror in France.
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