Robespierre
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
French Revolutionary leader and Jacobin.
The Jacobins or Terrorists, some of whom were still living, had been apostles of the social contract, but the Jacobins were to Englishmen objects of horror—Robespierre was the confutation of Rousseau.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Revolutionary leader credited by some with organising surveillance that trapped emigrating nobles
Some writers, in explaining this, have attributed to Robespierre a special genius for police organisation;