CRITICAL
MISCELLANIES
BY
JOHN MORLEY
VOL. I. Essay 1: Robespierre
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1904
CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
ROBESPIERRE.
[I.]
PAGE
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]