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 ...

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.

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 ...

Through war, siege and social strife, Europe has a long and often painful history of rationing everything from food to fuel and water, sometimes with unintended consequences. 1793-94 - The food ...

Reading an article on Maximilien Robespierre published in the New York Review of Books (23 June 2022) has led me to reflect (or more accurately, further reflect) on both my short time as an active ...

On a warm but stormy summer Paris day in 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, a leader of the French Revolution, was taken to the Plaza de la Revolución and summarily executed by guillotine before a ...

PARIS, March 6, (by telegraph to Clifden, Ireland; thence by wireless.) -- The proposal to erect a statue of Robespierre in the Tuileries Gardens has naturally caused much excitement in Paris.