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Robespierre
[ rohbz-peer, -pee-air; French raw-bes-pyer ]
noun
- Max路i路mi路lien Fran路莽ois Ma路rie I路si路dore de [m, a, k-see-mee-, lyan, f, r, ah, n, -, swa, m, a, -, ree, ee-zee-, dawr, d, uh], 1758鈥94, French lawyer and revolutionary leader.
Robespierre
/ 藞r蓹蕣bzpj蓻蓹; r蓴bzpj蓻r /
noun
- RobespierreMaximilien Fran莽ois Marie Isidore de17581794MFrenchPOLITICS: revolutionaryPOLITICS: statesman Maximilien Fran莽ois Marie Isidore de . (maksimilj蓻虄 fr蓱虄swa mari izid蓴r d蓹). 1758鈥94, French revolutionary and Jacobin leader: established the Reign of Terror as a member of the Committee of Public Safety (1793鈥94): executed in the coup d'茅tat of Thermidor (1794)
Robespierre
- A French political leader of the eighteenth century. Robespierre, a Jacobin , was one of the most radical leaders of the French Revolution . He was in charge of the government during the Reign of Terror , when thousands of persons were executed without trial. After a public reaction against his extreme policies, he was executed without trial.
Example Sentences
Prominent French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre met the same fate a year later.
It is where Louis XVI died by guillotine in 1793 and where French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre met the same fate a year later.
Robespierre鈥檚 execution kicked off the Thermidorian Reaction, in which France returned to more conservative policies.
More disturbing, Harris鈥檚 radicalism leads him on more than one occasion to embrace an ends-justify-the-violent-means ethic of the sort espoused by utopian revolutionaries from Robespierre to Stalin to Mao.
The result, which is laced with literary references, dramatizes the rivalry between two revolutionary leaders, Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre.
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