HIST20068 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Curbed, Le Vieux Cordelier, Maximilien Robespierre
18 Oct 2018
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5 (sections 5. 1-5. 4), and interviews with germani, linton, and tackett. Robert darnton, the kiss of lamourette: re ections in cultural history, ch. 1 (readings, no. Simon schama, citizens: a chronicle of the french revolution, pp. I must beg you to take very good care of the fruits of our love, our friendship should say enough about this. Give my brother, all my relatives and friends my last goodbyes. The strength of my will makes me believe that i will be missed. Accept my embraces, share them with our brothers and be sure of my love until the very end. " - noirette blancheton. Robespierre in demanding virtue was not simply yearning for a vague abstraction found in books, but demanding something that the revolution sadly needed. Had he been able to compromise a little more with reality, had he been more free of the aws which he saw in others, he might have accomplished more in the end.
