Biography: Robespierre is one of those radical political figures of history whose name typically conjures up images of Cromwell, Hitler and Mao fused together. If Maximilien Robespierre saw himself as ...

Ruth Scurr (ed.) Carlyle’s The French Revolution (London and New York: Continuum, 2010) and Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (London: Vintage, 2006) The boy kneels in ...

THERE are very few figures who polarise opinion quite like the French Revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to ...

Revolutionary France in 1794 was a crucible, combining all the elements that would embody Western politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. All eyes were on Paris. Depending on who was ...

The full title of the new, two-part, five-hour drama opening Sunday at Bailiwick Repertory is ”Incorruptible: The Life, Death and Dreams of Maximilian de Robespierre, or The Two Contrary States of the ...