Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre

Re:Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre by PicassoCTs on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:23AM (#27830869)

At least he was not murdered in a bathtub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat

If you look at what marat published, one can recognize the paper-civil-war-rage-culture, that is alive and hell on twitter.

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Re:Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre by fourtrees on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:14AM (#27831120)

For anyone interested, another more sympathetic figure to contrast with Marat and the like is Camille Desmoulins. A lawyer before the revolution, he engaged in the same 'rage-culture' diatribes as Marat -- until he realized he had gone much too far and began to speak against the Terror. Of course, he lost his head. Just his Wikipedia page is quite an emotional ride.

Thermidor can't come soon enough.

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Re:Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre by meowface on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:58AM (#27831020)

Not taking a side, but just to add some context:

>Responsibility for the September massacres has been attributed to [Marat], given his position of authority at the time and an alleged paper trail of decisions leading up to the massacre

>Charlotte Corday was guillotined on 17 July 1793 for the murder. During her four-day trial, she testified that she had carried out the assassination alone, saying "I killed one man to save 100,000."

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