The Life of Maximilien Robespierre: With Extracts from His Unpublished Correspondence (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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And as, with all this good-will, I shall have no more fastidious critic than yourself, to you I may offer the explanations which custom insists upon in prefaces.

There has hitherto been no biography of Robespierre. Notices in Biographical Dictionaries and in Histories of the French Re volution, are the only records of a career which has left so deep an impression upon men's minds. It seemed, therefore, desirable on many accounts, that the materials for a more complete under standing of this remarkable man, scattered through numerous and not easily accessible volumes, should be brought together, and something like a connected view of his career - his opinions - and his acts be given to the public. The Revolution of February, 1848, by once more bringing Robespierre's name and doctrines into alarming prominence, suggested this undertaking; the time which has since elapsed, will show that it has been executed in no unseemly haste.

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The sources from which it has been compiled are as follows :I. M6moires de Charlotte Robespierre sur ses Deux Freres. Published by Dapormerage, in 1835. (U pon the authenticity of which the Quarterly Review, Sept. 1835, should be consulted.) II. MS moires authentiques de Maximilien Robespierre. 2vols. Paris, 1830. This pretended autobiography is the production of M. Charles Reybaud the husband of the charming novelist and although a scarcely disguised fabrication, contains some authentic biographical materials. It is, however, incomplete, going no further than Sept. 1791. III. Papiers Medits trouves chez Robespierre. Published by Courtois, with a virulent report. IV. Montjoie :H istoire de la conjuration de Robespierre: one of the many libels published about the Tyrant. V. Des Essarts :C rimes de Robespierre. Ditto. VI. Vilate :C auses secretes de la Rev. du 9au 10 Thermidor. Ditto :D es Mysteres de la Mere de Deux Devoiles. VII. Biographic Universelle, and Biographie des Contemporains. VIII. The Revolutionary Memoires (C amille Desmoulins, Mirabeau, Ferricres, Barere, Mad. Roland, Garat, Louvet, Weber, Benseuval, c.). Published in the collection of Berville et Barriere. IX. Carlyle, A lison, Thiers, Mignet, Louis Blanc, and Michelet: Histories of the French Revolution. X. Lamartine :H istoire des Girondins. XL The Ancien Moniteur. XII. The long and invaluable Histoire Parlementaire de la Rev. Fran .B y Buckey and Roux. XIII. Quarterly Review, Sept. 1835 :A narticle on Robespierre, written from the Quarterly point of view, but written by one celebrated for his minute and ample knowledge of the period.
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