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"Citizens, did you will want revolution with out a revolution?" (Maximilien Robespierre) A lot of ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most influential information, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' French series, listeners can get swept up to rate on the lives of France's most significant women and men in the time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. In lots of ways it is fitted that Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is among the best known information of the French Trend, if not its most well-known. The early many years of the Trend were fueled by Enlightenment ideals, seeking the cultural overthrow of the caste system that gave the royalty and aristocracy decisive advantages over the lower classes. Few were as vocal in their support of Enlightenment ideals as Robespierre, who was greatly versed in Rousseau and Montesquieu, a champion of the bourgeoise, and an advocate of human being rights who opposed both slavery and the loss of life penalty. But record remembers the French Trend in a starkly different way, as the same leaders who sought a far more democratic system while out of ability devolved into building a remarkably repressive tyranny of their own after they acquired it. Because of this, the Reign of Terror became the most memorable aspect of the Revolution, with the top of everything was Robespierre, whose position on the Committee of Community Protection made him the Reign of Terror's instrumental body, until he himself became a sufferer of the Revolution's extremism.
