Some serious stupidities were written about Robespierre's supposed mental illness in few old books. Von Hentig's and Kretschmer ones are the worst of them all, but they are *almost* hysterical on their own...Kretschmer claims that also Couthon was pretty crazy and wrote that he suffered from arterioesclerosis, "because it was the illness of professional revolutionnary" (Ugh!) , and Von Hentig tries to convince us that Maximilien was a paranoid, an schizoid and wa s jealous of Danton's virility...so, he killed him.
Furthermore, the French author Bernard Nabonne, who wrote "Robespierre's Private Life", traced the roots of Maximilien's crazyness in his own father. he claims that François de Robespierre was more crazy than his son, so old Maximilien (Robespierre's Grandpa), puts him at a convent to have him far from home ,since he would embarrase the whole family before Arras good society.Plain bullshit...
The worst of it is that these are not supposed to be fiction, but history works. No wonder that fiction authors could be pretty absurd if even historians would write down those delirious ideas...
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Furthermore, the French author Bernard Nabonne, who wrote "Robespierre's Private Life", traced the roots of Maximilien's crazyness in his own father. he claims that François de Robespierre was more crazy than his son, so old Maximilien (Robespierre's Grandpa), puts him at a convent to have him far from home ,since he would embarrase the whole family before Arras good society.Plain bullshit...
The worst of it is that these are not supposed to be fiction, but history works. No wonder that fiction authors could be pretty absurd if even historians would write down those delirious ideas...