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Marc Bouloiseau
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Former Secretary, Commission for the Economic and Social History of the French Revolution. Emeritus Teaching Assistant in History of the French Revolution, University of Paris. Author of Robespierre and others.

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Eighteenth-century painted portrait of Maximilien de Robespierre wearing a brown striped coat, high collar, and white cravat, set against a plain background.
Maximilien Robespierre was a radical Jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution. In the latter months of 1793, he came to dominate the Committee of Public Safety, the principal organ of the Revolutionary government during the Reign of Terror, but in 1794 he was…
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Robespierre
Robespierre (1987)
By Marc Bouloiseau