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"The following fragment appears to be part of the journal of an English spy in Paris, kept during the terrible months of January to July, 1794."--Page [v].
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced.
We have in "The Journal of a Spy in Paris" a genuine fragment, appearing to be part of the journal of an English spy in Paris, kept during the terrible months of January to July, 1794. "Raoul Hesdin" is the name written upon the brown paper cover of the hook. The Girondists have fallen and the Maximum Laws have just been passed at the point where the diary, as it exists, begins. During the seven months, from December, 1793, to July, 1794, is occurring the steady elimination of parties and individuals bv Robespierre for his own benefit. The followers of Hebert fall in March, those of Danton in April. Each partly leaves, however, a "tail," who gradually unites with those members of the committees who are themselves threatened, to work the Revolution of Thermidor, the downfall of Robespierre and the beginning of the end of the Reign of Terror. It is through this most intense, most terrible period of the French Revolution that Hesdin's diary, as published, runs. From day to day he jots down in crisp, trenchant phrases events as he sees them and knows them—political gossip of the Jacobin Club, clean-cut delineations of the ruling spirits in the Revolution, Robespierre, St. Just, Couthon, Billaud and Barere; vivid pictures of the guillotine horrors, municipal extortions and the filth and misery in Paris. It is a series of pen-pictures, among the most vivid of which are the descriptions of the horrible famine in Paris, the extent of vice, the state of art and literature, the horrors of the executions, judicial methods under the Terror, municipal extortions and briberies. —Philadelphia Press
French Revolutionary history told through the lives of some of its most influential personages, beginning with Charlotte Corday, assassin of Jean-Paul Marat. Mme. Manon Roland, Georges-Jaques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, they all met violent deaths in a terror which dominated Paris and which the three, with Marat and a few others, largely engineered.
Excerpt from The Journal of a Spy in Paris: During the Reign of Terror, January-July, 1794 June, 1794, did little to compensate for the continued success of the French Republic on land. The defeats of the Vendéens, and the surrender of Toulon in December, 1793. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793–94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life with a deep understanding of society and the politics of the French Revolution to arrive at a fresh understanding of the man, his passions, and his tragic shortcomings. Peter McPhee gives special attention to Robespierre's formative years and the development of an iron will in a frail boy conceived outside wedlock and on the margins of polite provincial society. Exploring how these experiences formed the young lawyer who arrived in Versailles in 1789, the author discovers not the cold, obsessive Robespierre of legend, but a man of passion with close but platonic friendships with women. Soon immersed in revolutionary conflict, he suffered increasingly lengthy periods of nervous collapse correlating with moments of political crisis, yet Robespierre was tragically unable to step away from the crushing burdens of leadership. Did his ruthless, uncompromising exercise of power reflect a descent into madness in his final year of life? McPhee reevaluates the ideology and reality of "the Terror," what Robespierre intended, and whether it represented an abandonment or a reversal of his early liberalism and sense of justice.
Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Scurr tracks Robespierre's evolution from lawyer to revolutionary leader. This is a fascinating portrait of a man who identified with the Revolution to the point of madness, and in so doing changed the course of history.
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