Hm, good point, I used the word in another meaning. Though remember that this nature-loving Rousseauist is also responsible for the Terror and he wasn't called "cold monster" for no reason. Not that these two cannot go together, as many examples show. In Robespierre's case, I think, it shows his tragedy.

Were he an open, trusting person, they would eat him up much sooner. "Brotherhood was cherished" - or illusion of such? There are friends and "friends". I believe in the Duplays and (hesitant) maybe Saint-Just.