Even historians are biased. My all time favortie hate quote of SJ is when in the introduction Hampson calls him, "a satanic monster" and ends the book with calling him "the devil himself" That just seems a bit extreem...
I the author Hilliary Mantel wrote a really intesting artical on Robespierre, here's the link: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n08/mant01_.html
or its this one: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n07/mant01_.html
By the way, this group is really great! Most groups don't really have that many discussions.
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Date: 2007-08-09 06:31 pm (UTC)I the author Hilliary Mantel wrote a really intesting artical on Robespierre, here's the link:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n08/mant01_.html
or its this one:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n07/mant01_.html
By the way, this group is really great! Most groups don't really have that many discussions.