Robespierre
Maximillian Robespierre is a name that many associate with the terrible events that occurred in France during the revolution. According to historian J.M. Thompson, “He was led, not by cruel ambition but by common hopes and fears, into the bloodshed of the Reign of Terror” . He brought himself up, through political criticism, from a poor orphan to a leader of a revolution. Robespierre himself was the architect of his own rise and of his own demise. The era in which Robespierre was born was a time of the enlightenment, but also in a time of chaos. Everyone was striving to achieve success through reason and logic. The situation of France was chaotic. It was clear that King Louis XVI was incompetent to fulfill his duties as a king. Some aspects of the situation would have been so familiar as to be taken for granted: the decline of the Monarchy during Louis XV’s long reign; the weakening of the position of the Church; the transference of wealth and social consequence from the nobility and gentry to the commercial and professional middle class; or the continual rise in prices which prevented the workers from profiting by the increasing prosperity of the country. The people of France were ready for a change t
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Approximate Word count = 1194
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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