Augustin Robespierre
Augustin de Robespierre | |
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Member of the National Convention for Paris | |
In office 20 September 1792 – 28 July 1794 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Augustin Bon Joseph de Robespierre 21 January 1763 France |
Cause of death | Execution by guillotine |
Political party | The Mountain |
Augustin Bon Joseph de Robespierre (21 January 1763 – 28 July 1794),
Early life
Robespierre was born in
Although his political views were very similar to those of his brother, Robespierre was very different in character. Handsome, he was also fond of good food, gaming and the company of women,[6]: 169 and called "Bonbon". At the outset of the Revolution, Robespierre was prosecutor-syndic of Arras.[7]: 292 Together with Martial Herman he founded a political club in the town and wrote to his brother to secure its affiliation with the Jacobins in Paris.[3]: 115 In 1791, he was appointed administrator of the département of Pas-de-Calais.
Convention
Robespierre stood for election to the new
When he first came to Paris to take his seat he was accompanied by his sister
At the end of July 1793, Robespierre was sent on a mission to Alpes-Maritimes to suppress the Federalist revolt,[1] together with another deputy from the convention, Jean François Ricord. Charlotte accompanied him. Much of southeastern France (Midi) was in rebellion against the Republic, and they barely made it alive after an attack by counter-revolutionaries in Manosque on August 12, 1793. In September 1793, they arrived in Nice where they felt secure enough to attend the theatre, but on the third occasion they did so, they were pelted with rotten apples.[3]: 252 Meanwhile Robespierre discovered a pamphlet entitled Le souper de Beaucaire (The supper at Beaucaire), written by Napoleon, and was impressed by the revolutionary context.[12]: 21 Napoleon was promoted into the position of senior gunner at Toulon.[13] On 17 December Augustin stayed in Ollioules. On 19 December 1793 Augustin did not take part in the military action, led by Dugommier and Napoleon, which retook Toulon from the British.[3]: 258 He seems to have left a few hours before or the day after and was not present when Fréron took revenge on the population. When he returned to Paris, Augustin decided not to move in with Charlotte; they were no longer on speaking terms.[14] In early January Augustin Robespierre was shocked at the changed atmosphere in the Jacobin club.[15][16] By now the revolutionaries feared one another.[17] Augustin went to live with Ricord and his wife.[6]: 170–171 Maximilien returned to the Duplays' house in February 1794, being sick.
At the end of January Robespierre was dispatched once again as a
Death
Robespierre was in the hall of the Convention on the day of
In order to avoid capture, Robespierre took off his shoes and jumped from a ledge. He landed on the steps, or on some bayonets, resulting in a pelvic fracture and several serious head contusions.[23]: 271 Barras ordered that Robespierre be carried back to the rooms of the Committee of General Security.[1] After a couple of hours the prisoners were taken to the Conciergerie prison; four of them were lying on stretchers. After identification at the Revolutionary Tribunal according to the Law of 22 Prairial, the twenty-two convicts were sent to the scaffold on Place de la Révolution in the early evening. Couthon was the second of the prisoners to be executed, with Robespierre as the third, Hanriot as the ninth and Maximilien as the tenth.[24]: 210
References
- ^ a b c d e "Augustin, Bon, Joseph de Robespierre (Biography)" (in French). National Assembly. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ISBN 9780870980381.
- ^ ISBN 9781466805781.
- ISBN 978-0300118117.
- ISBN 9780094578500.
- ^ ISBN 9780684140551.
- ^ ISBN 9781787205185.
- ^ a b Robert, Jean Baptiste Magloire (1814). Vie politique de tous les députés à la Convention nationale (in French). Chez L. Saintmichel.
- ^ Mémoires de Charlotte Robespierre sur ses deux frères, pp. 90–91
- ^ Robespierre 2006.
- ^ Hampson 1974, p. 87.
- ^ ISBN 9780297765691.
- ^ Dwyer, p. 136.
- OCLC 1096803462.
- ISBN 9782213689463– via Google Books.
- ISBN 9782072808562– via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780191009914– via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780199576302.
- ISBN 9780300148206.
- ISBN 978-0-521-44105-6.
- ^ Hamel, Ernest (1897). Thermidor : d'après les sources originales et les documents authentiques (in French).
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- ^ Lenotre, G. (1924). Robespierre's Rise and Fall. Translated by Stawell, Rodolph (Mrs.). Hutchinson & Co.
- ^ Sanson, Henri; Sanson, Charles Henri; Sanson, Henri; Olbreuze, d' (1876). Memoirs of the Sansons, from private notes and documents, 1688–1847. Chatto and Windus.
Sources
- Hampson, Norman (1974). The Life and Opinions of Maximilien Robespierre. Duckworth. ISBN 978-0-7156-0741-1.
- Robespierre, Charlotte (2006). Mémoires. Paris: Nouveau monde éd. ISBN 978-2847361766.
Further reading
- Alexandre Cousin, Philippe Lebas et Augustin Robespierre, deux météores dans la Révolution française (2010). (in French)
- Marisa Linton, Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship and Authenticity in the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2013).
- Sergio Luzzatto, Bonbon Robespierre: la terreur à visage humain (2010). (in French)
- Martial Sicard, Robespierre jeune dans les Basses-Alpes, Forcalquier, A. Crest (1900). (in French)
- Mary Young, Augustin, the Younger Robespierre (2011, ISBN 9786054512089).
External links
- "L'enfance de Maximilien", in L’association Maximilien Robespierre pour l’Idéal Démocratique bulletin n° 45. (in French)
- "Augustin, the Younger Robespierre", by Mary Young (in English)