Robespierre: "Louis Must Perish" French lawyer Maximilien Robespierre became involved in politics when he was elected to the Estates-General in 1789.
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Robespierre: "Louis Must Perish" French lawyer Maximilien Robespierre became involved in politics when he was elected to the Estates-General in 1789. In 1790 he became a leader of the Jacobins, a radical group that played a dominant role in the French Revolution (1789-1799). When King Louis XVI was overthrown in August 1792, Robespierre called for a republic to replace the monarchy. Robespierre spoke before the National Convention on December 3, declaring the king a traitor to his people and demanding his death. "Louis Must Perish Because Our Country Must Live!" What is the conduct prescribed by sound policy to cement the republic? It is to engrave deeply into all hearts a contempt for royalty, and to strike terror into the partisans of the King. To place his crime before the world as a problem, his cause as the object of the most imposing discussion that ever existed, to place an immeasurable space between the memory of what he was and the title of a citizen, is the very way to mak...
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