Robbespierre had no broad view of the future of France. What he had was a situation where France was being invaded by armies bent on restoring king Louis XVI, and uprisings in France itself against the revolutionary government. Like many regimes who have their backs against the wall, the revolutionary leaders appointed a 'committee for public safety' to forcibly weed out all "enemies of the Revolution", real or percieved. So under Robberspierre's directions, generals who were unsuccesful against the foreign troops were fired from their posts and executed, the uprisings in the French provinces were surpressed with great harshness and thousands of executions and in Paris itself, anyone vaguely suspected of anything un-revolutionary was dragged to the guillotine. Robbespierre, who called himself 'the purest of the pure', had no other goal than just to liquidate all enemies of the revolution.
Only finally he went overboard, starting to see colleagues and Members of Parliament (his paymasters) as enemies of the State and announcing that he shortly would expose them and have them executed. That very swiftly put an end to his career. He was arrested and after a very brief show trial in one of the Kangaroo courts he had established himself, he was taken to the guillotine the next day and executed.
Robespierre created a committee of public safety, which ironically apprehended and killed citizens who were against the revolution. He created a Dictatorship.
Maximilien de Robespierre was an early proponent of political democracy. His advanced ideas concerning the application of the revolutionary principle of equality won for him the fervent support of the lower middle and working classes (the sans-culottes) and a firm place later in the 19th century in the pantheon of European radical and revolutionary heroes. These ideas and the repressive methods used to implement and defend them, which came to be called the Reign of Terror, and his role as spokesman for this radical and violent phase of the French Revolution also won for him the opprobrium of conservative opponents of the Revolution ever since.
The French Revolution of 1789 stood for the ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
self-government and individual freedom.
The Enlightenment
Rousseau's ideas inspire many leaders of the French Revolution. Rousseau fought for individual freedom. He though that a direct democracy was the best form of government.
The French Revolution of 1789 stood for the ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
The French Revolution of 1789 stood for the ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
Maximilien de Robespierre was an early proponent of political democracy. His advanced ideas concerning the application of the revolutionary principle of equality won for him the fervent support of the lower middle and working classes (the sans-culottes) and a firm place later in the 19th century in the pantheon of European radical and revolutionary heroes. These ideas and the repressive methods used to implement and defend them, which came to be called the Reign of Terror, and his role as spokesman for this radical and violent phase of the French Revolution also won for him the opprobrium of conservative opponents of the Revolution ever since.
equality, fraternity and liberty
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American Revolution and French Revolution. They were both justified themselves with Enlightenment ideals.
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The ideas of the French Revolution were democracy. If the Russian people began thinking those things, they would threaten the tsar's power at the least or even dethrone him.
How the Enlightenment influenced the French Revolution was by challenging the monarchy and the wealthiest classes .
self-government and individual freedom.
self-government and individual freedom
The Napoleonic Code.