Who is maximellein robespierre?
Here’s a good summary from the Columbia Encyclopedia. I would maintain that the final statement is debatable, however. A poor youth, he was enabled to study law in Paris through a scholarship. He won admiration for his abilities, but his austerity and dedication isolated him from easy companionship. Returning to his native Arras, he practiced law and gained some reputation. He soon came under the influence of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s theories of democracy and deism, and Robespierre’s emphasis on virtue—which in his mind meant civic morality—later earned him the epithet “the Incorruptible.” Robespierre was elected to the States-General of 1789, and his influence in the Jacobin Club grew steadily until he became its leader. In the National Constituent Assembly (June, 1789–Sept., 1791), he unsuccessfully championed democratic elections and successfully backed the law that made members of the Constituent Assembly ineligible to sit in the Legislative Assembly, which succeeded it. In the spri
