When we were done, we talked about how the book had inadvertently convinced us that Maximilien Robespierre was on the autism spectrum. (This, because both of us slightly are, and we recognized the ...

Democratic revolutionaries always confront the same problem: how to replace the old order without replicating its flaws. A new biography of the French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre's reveals ...

Maximilien Robespierre was one of the main instigators of the Terror, and a leading politician in France's National Convention. (Image credit: Wiki/ Musée Carnavalet) ...

In “What Were Robespierre’s Pronouns?” (Declarations, July 27), Peggy Noonan draws an astute analogy between the radical purists of the French Revolution and our increasingly strident left ...

In Revolutionary France, Maximilien Robespierre emerged as a passionate advocate for the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. But despite his initial commitment to justice, overreach made ...

The boy was Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) and the coach contained Louis XVI and his family returning from his coronation at Reims in 1775.

And Maximilien Robespierre could see no further than his brother. In the efforts of the advanced party he saw only attacks on the Government of which he was a member. Like Brissot, he accused them of ...

On Sunday, March 12, the Osenat House auctioned the only surviving letter from Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) to Georges Danton (1759-1794). It was sold to a French collector for €218,750.

In the months that followed, the severe and inflexible justice of the guillotine severed 12,000 heads, including Robespierre's. Of course, not everyone shared Robespierre's enthusiasm for the ...

But where do you start with Maximilien Robespierre? Ruth Scurr takes on one of the most enigmatic of historical figures, in this thoroughly researched, well-written biography.

Maximilien Robespierre News from United Press International. On May 6, 1937, the German passenger airship Hindenburg erupted in a fireball at Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 passengers and ...

More than 200 years after his head was chopped off, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre is still causing trouble. The latest in the popular Assassin’s Creed series of video games ...