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The Cult of the Supreme Being (French: Culte de l'Être suprême) [note 1] was a form of theocratic deism established by Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution as the intended state religion of France and a replacement for its rival, the Cult of Reason, and of Roman Catholicism. It went unsupported after the fall of Robespierre and ...
Politics portal. v. t. e. Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (French: [maksimiljɛ̃ ʁɔbɛspjɛʁ]; 6 May 1758 – 10 Thermidor, Year II 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre fervently campaigned for the ...
The Coup d'état of 9 Thermidor or the Fall of Maximilien Robespierre is the series of events beginning with Maximilien Robespierre 's address to the National Convention on 8 Thermidor Year II (26 July 1794), his arrest the next day, and his execution on 10 Thermidor (28 July). In the speech of 8 Thermidor, Robespierre spoke of the existence of ...
Signature. Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan kɑ̃tɛ̃ fukje tɛ̃vil], 10 June 1746 – 7 May 1795), also called Fouquier-Tinville and nicknamed posthumously the Provider of the Guillotine[ 1 ] was a French lawyer and accusateur public of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the French Revolution and Reign of ...
Upon Maximilien de Robespierre 's motion it decreed that none of its members should be capable of sitting in the next legislature; this is known as the self-denying ordinance. [1] Its successor body, the Legislative Assembly, operating under the liberal French Constitution of 1791, did not last a year and was generally deemed a failure. It left ...
Laponneraye himself went on to befriend Charlotte de Robespierre and published several works of his own about the life of her brother. [2] The first reprint of the book (which was initially anonymously published) was done in 1837 in Brussels, attached to Le Radical, and it has since been reprinted several times. [1]
The Society of the Friends of the Constitution (French: Société des amis de la Constitution), renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality (Société des Jacobins, amis de la liberté et de l'égalité) after 1792 and commonly known as the Jacobin Club (Club des Jacobins) or simply the Jacobins (/ ˈ dʒ æ k ə b ɪ n ...
Works about Maximilien Robespierre (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Maximilien Robespierre" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.