ROBESPIERRE.
[I.]
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Introduction [1]
Different views of Robespierre [4]
His youthful history [5]
An advocate at Arras [7]
Acquaintance with Carnot [10]
The summoning of the States-General [11]
Prophecies of revolution [12]
Reforming Ministers tried and dismissed [13]
Financial state of France [14]
Impotence of the Monarchy [17]
The Constituent Assembly [19]
Robespierre interprets the revolutionary movement rightly [21]
The Sixth of October 1789 [23]
Alteration in Robespierre's position [25]
Character of Louis XVI. [28]
And of Marie Antoinette [29]
The Constitution and Robespierre's mark upon it [34]
Instability of the new arrangements [37]
Importance of Jacobin ascendancy [41]
The Legislative Assembly [42]
Robespierre's power at the Jacobin Club [44]
His oratory [45]
The true secret of his popularity [48]
Aggravation of the crisis in the spring of 1792 [50]
The Tenth of August 1792 [52]
Danton [53]
Compared with Robespierre [55]
Robespierre compared with Marat and with Sieyès [57]
Character of the Terror [58]
[II.]
Fall of the Girondins indispensable [60]
France in desperate peril [61]
The Committee of Public Safety [65]
At the Tuileries [67]
The contending factions [70]
Reproduced an older conflict of theories [72]
Robespierre's attitude [73]
The Hébertists [77]
Chaumette and his fundamental error [80]
Robespierre and the atheists [82]
His bitterness towards Anacharsis Clootz [86]
New turn of events (March 1794) [90]
First breach in the Jacobin ranks: the Hébertists [90]
Robespierre's abandonment of Danton [91]
Second breach: the Dantonians (April 1794) [95]
Another reminiscence of this date [97]
Robespierre's relations to the Committees changed [98]
The Feast of the Supreme Being [101]
Its false philosophy [103]
And political inanity [104]
The Law of Prairial [106]
Robespierre's motive in devising it [107]
It produces the Great Terror [109]
Robespierre's chagrin at its miscarriage [112]
His responsibility not to be denied [112]
(1) Affair of Catherine Théot [113]
" Cécile Renault [114]
(2) Robespierre stimulated popular commissions [115]
The drama of Thermidor: the combatants [117]
Its conditions [118]
The Eighth Thermidor [119]
Inefficiency of Robespierre's speech [121]
The Ninth Thermidor [123]
Famous scene in the Convention [125]
Robespierre a prisoner [127]
Struggle between the Convention and the Commune [129]
Death of Robespierre [131]
Ultimate issue of the struggle between the Committees
and the Convention [132]