In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Robespierre is not an easy man to like. Prudish and prickly, the anonymous ...

The short, violent life of Maximilien Robespierre was a mass of contradictions crowned with a supreme irony: this architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror ...

While historical record includes a wealth of evidence that backs up negative attitudes towards the gathering masses, it is also chockful of individuals who were behaving badly too and yet they tend to ...

The full title of the new, two-part, five-hour drama opening Sunday at Bailiwick Repertory is ”Incorruptible: The Life, Death and Dreams of Maximilian de Robespierre, or The Two Contrary States of the ...

This 3D reconstruction released Friday Dec.20, 2013 by VisualForensic shows Robespierre's face according to two French scientists. Robespierre who unleashed the ...