The Republic of Virtue
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So, last time, the Revolution ate some of her most famous children, gobbling them up at the behest of her friends on the Committee of Public Safety. According to Robespierre, their factional partisanship threatened to lead France off the narrow path to the virtuous promised land he clearly believed it […]
The Liquidation Process
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So Last week it was a bit of a grab bag of topics to bring everything up to speed so that we could spend today talking about the great factional battle between the Danton-led Indulgents and the Jacques Hébert-led Ultras in the first few months of 1794. As we established […]