Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Maximilien Robespierre: On the Principles of Political Morality, February 1794 Citizens, Representatives of the People: Some time since we laid before you the principles of our exterior political system, we now come to develop the principles of political morality which are to govern the interior. After having long pursued the path ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Maximilien Robespierre: Justification of the Use of Terror Maximilien Robespierre (1758 1794) was the leader of the twelveman Committee of Public Safety elected by the National Convention, and which effectively governed France at the height of the radical phase of the revolution. He had once been a fairly straightforward liberal ...

Why the French revolution was the start of the decline of Western Civilization, supported by citing a contemporary of the times, Edmund Burke.

Europe in Retrospect Table of Contents Preface Introduction The Reordering of Europe:1789-1871 1: The Old Order 2: The French Revolution 3: International Order & Domestic Strife 4: The Age of Power Expansion & Explosion:1871-1918 5: Concentration 6: Expansion 7: Discontent & Tension 8: The War Reconstruction & New Order:1918-1945 9: Disorder: Europe in the 1920s 10: An Era of Despair 11: The ...

Association francaise des Amis de Robespierre pour le Bicentenaire de la Revolution(ARBR). Son but : faire connaitre l'Incorruptible et ses idees.

At The History Place - A speech delivered by one of the leaders of the French revolution.

Svenska, tack! The Guillotine's Inventor 5/16/1997 Doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine; he merely recommended its use to the National Assembly. And it wasn't Doctor Antoine Louis either; he just constructed a new French version of the decapitation machine already being used in Germany and Italy. The French version was built in 1789 and was to become infamous during the ...