I like Norman Hampson! Even the Saint-Just book - he sounds like a bad tempered tutor going on about a student he particularly dislikes: "even his spelling was bad!"

Geriatric Robespierres..the 1930's Scarlet Pimpernel was on again a few weeks ago, and I think they must have got him mixed up with Mirabeau! It's the one that starts "June 1792, and Robespierre, dictator of France, is sending dozens to the guillotine..." so old man Robespierre is the least of the problems. Fun, though!