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I. Introduction
Different views of Robespierre
His youthful history
An advocate at Arras
Acquaintance with Carnot
The summoning of the States-General
Prophecies of revolution
Reforming Ministers tried and dismissed
Financial state of France
Impotence of the Monarchy
The Constituent Assembly
Robespierre interprets the revolutionary
movement rightly
The Sixth of October 1789
Alteration in Robespierre's position
Character of Louis XVI.
And of Marie Antoinette
The Constitution and Robespierre's mark upon it
Instability of the new arrangements
Importance of Jacobin ascendancy
The Legislative Assembly
Robespierre's power at the Jacobin Club
His oratory
The true secret of his popularity
Aggravation of the crisis in the spring of 1792
The Tenth of August 1792
Danton
Compared with Robespierre
Robespierre compared with Marat and with Sieyes
Character of the Terror
II. Fall of the Girondins indispensable
France in desperate peril
The Committee of Public Safety
At the Tuileries
The contending factions
Reproduced an older conflict of theories
Robespierre's attitude
The Hebertists
Chaumette and his fundamental error
Robespierre and the atheists
His bitterness towards Anacharsis Clootz
New turn of events (March 1794)
First breach in the Jacobin ranks: the Hebertists
Robespierre's abandonment of Danton
Second breach: the Dantonians (April 1794)
Another reminiscence of this date
Robespierre's relations to the Committees changed
The Feast of the Supreme Being
Its false philosophy
And political inanity
The Law of Prairial
Robespierre's motive in devising it
It produces the Great Terror
Robespierre's chagrin at its miscarriage
His responsibility not to be denied
(1) Affair of Catherine Theot
" Cecile Renault
(2) Robespierre stimulated popular commissions
The drama of Thermidor: the combatants
Its conditions
The Eighth Thermidor
Inefficiency of Robespierre's speech
The Ninth Thermidor
Famous scene in the Convention
Robespierre a prisoner
Struggle between the Convention and the Commune
Death of Robespierre
Ultimate issue of the struggle between
the Committees and the Convention _