We all know about Robespierre and identify him with the French Revolutionary terror of 1793–4. But few of us could give a coherent account of his activities as a ...

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Both Robespierre the Jacobin and Jacques Pierre Brissot the Girondin, by contrast, created solid, loyal, organized followings they could count on to follow their lead in crucial situations. Marat’s ...

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ROBESPIERRE AND THE FOURTH ESTATE—Ralph Korngold—Moderr Age ($3.75). The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars were Act I of a European melodrama of which the Russian and German Revolutions and ...

Neoclassicism is having a moment. Long regarded as the most predictable and least admired of the grand movements of Western art, it is turning out to be full of surprises. In 2023, Antonio Canova, the ...

Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life," a biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recognized as one of the best books of 2023. Biographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and ...

At the end of a class on the fundamental principles of law that I was teaching to first-year law students, a group of students approached me and asked: “But who is this Robert Badinter you speak of so ...