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3.15- The Rise of the Jacobins

Revolutions

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The Life of Maximilian Robespierre

Robespierre was a provincial lawyer in arris before joining the French revolution. He helped found the jacobin club and sat on the executive steering committee along with triumvirate of duport barnave, lamette and great orator mirabel. Robespierre stressed the goodness of average frenchman and called for an end to any institution that tended to threaten that fundamental virtue. The right will become even more conservative than it had been before according to this book.

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