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Robespierre

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Robes·pierre  (rbzpîr, -p-âr, rô-bs-pyr), Maximilien François Marie Isidore de 1758-1794.
French revolutionary. Leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror, he was known as an austere and incorruptible man. His laws permitting the confiscation of property and arrest of suspected traitors, many of whom were guillotined, led to his own arrest and execution without trial.
Robespierre [ˈrəʊbzpjɛə (French) rɔbzpjɛr]
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(Biographies / Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de (1758-1794) M, French, POLITICS: revolutionary, POLITICS: statesman) Maximilien François Marie Isidore de. (maksimiljɛ̃ frɑ̃swa mari izidɔr də). 1758-94, French revolutionary and Jacobin leader: established the Reign of Terror as a member of the Committee of Public Safety (1793-94): executed in the coup d'état of Thermidor (1794)
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Noun1.RobespierreRobespierre - French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'etat (1758-1794)
Maxmillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre


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Nay, madame; I would place each of these heroes on his right pedestal -- that of Robespierre on his scaffold in the Place Louis Quinze; that of Napoleon on the column of the Place Vendome.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Dark crimson velvet, dark purple silk, and jet-black cloth, with linen of dazzling whiteness, composed the festive dress of the President, who marched at the head of his Committee carrying an enormous nosegay, like that which a hundred and twenty-one years later, Monsieur de Robespierre displayed at the festival of "The Supreme Being.
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Meanwhile, he cast his eyes over that unfortunate city, which contained so much deep misery and so many heroic virtues, and recalling the saying of Louis XI, his political predecessor, as he himself was the predecessor of Robespierre, he repeated this maxim of Tristan's gossip: "Divide in order to reign.
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