Quotes about Robespierre

[pevampire.livejournal.com]

I want to know what historians generally think of Robespierre but i'm having sort of hard time
researching ;_; Just quotes about him would be okay (if i can understand it) but what do
historians say about him? Do they really say horrible things? It would be nice if you could give me some quotes about Maxime. ^_^

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[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Here's a short essay you might find interesting: it's by the Edwardian (c 1910) novelist and essayist G.K. Chesterton, and I was surprised when I first read it, because the standard view of his time - which he discusses here - was that Robespierre was a villain - the criminal of the essay's title. Instead, whilst noting his flaws, he notes too that it took someone like that to attempt such an extraordinary social transformation - Chesterton thought it the boldest since Christianity. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alarms_and_Discursions/A_Criminal_Head