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Download .Pdf robespierre ROBESPIERRE a revolutionary life 8 Peter McPhee YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW HAVEN AND LONDON Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund. Copyright © 2012 Peter McPhee All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press) without written permission from the publishers. For information about this and other Yale University Press publications, please contact: U.S. Office: [email protected] www.yalebooks.com Europe Office: [email protected] www.yalebooks.co.uk Set in Arno Pro by IDSUK (DataConnection) Ltd Printed in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McPhee, Peter, 1948– Robespierre : a revolutionary life / Peter McPhee. â P. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978–0–300–11811–7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758–1794. 2. Revolutionaries—France—Biography. 3. Statesmen—France—Biography. 4. France—History—Revolution, 1789–1799. 5. France—History—Reign of Terror, 1793–1794. 6. France—Politics and government—1789–1799. I. Title. DC146.R6M38 2012 944.04092–dc23 [B] 2011027640 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Lily and Jack Charlotte Robespierre, 1830 ‘It is for history to recognize one day whether Maximilien Robespierre was really guilty of all the revolutionary excesses of which he was accused by his colleagues after his death.’1 Marc Bloch, 1941 ‘Can we be so sure of ourselves and our times as we distinguish between the just and the damned among our forebears? . Robespierristes, anti-Robespierristes, we beg for mercy: for pity’s sake, just tell us who was Robespierre.’2 8 Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction: ‘Clay in the hands of writers’ xv Map of France xx 1 A ‘serious, grown-up, hardworking’ little boy: Arras 1758–69 1 2 ‘An extremely strong desire to succeed’: Paris 1769–81 13 3 ‘Such a talented man’: Arras 1781–84 27 4 ‘Bachelorhood seems to encourage rebelliousness’: Arras 1784–89 41 5 ‘We are winning’: Versailles 1789 62 6 ‘Daring to clean out the Augean stables’: Paris 1789–91 78 7 ‘Numerous and implacable enemies’: Arras 1791 98 8 ‘The Vengeance of the People’: Paris 1791–92 112 9 ‘Did you want a Revolution without Revolution?’: Paris 1792–93 133 10 ‘A complete regeneration’: Paris, July–December 1793 158 11 ‘Men with changing tongues’: Paris, January–June 1794 182 12 ‘The unhappiest man alive’: Paris, July 1794 204 Epilogue: ‘That modern Procrustes’ 222 Chronology 235 Notes 243 Bibliography 276 Index 292 8 Illustrations 1. Anonymous, Arras in the late eighteenth century, c. 1793. Bibliothèque nationale de France. 2. Anonymous, The College of Louis le Grand, c. 1780. Bibliothèque nationale de France. 3. The Latin Quarter, from the ‘Plan de Turgot’ by Louis Bretez, c. 1739. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 4. Louis-Léopold Boilly, Maximilien de Robespierre, 1783. Musée des Beaux- Arts de Lille, Réunion des musées nationaux. 5. Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Charlotte Robespierre, c. 1792–94. Musée des Beaux- Arts d’Arras. 6. Dominique Doncre, Louis-Hilaire de Conzié, 1775. Association Diocésaine d’Arras. 7. Louis-Léopold Boilly, Ferdinand Dubois de Fosseux, 1783. Archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais, 4Fi 270. 8. Anonymous, Bon-Albert Briois de Beaumez, c. 1789. Archives départemen- tales du Pas-de-Calais, 4J 472/9. 9. Anonymous, Robespierre’s house in Arras, early nineteenth century. Archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais, 4J 472/93. 10. Département du Pas-de-Calais, c. 1790. Archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais, 4J 437/10. 11. ‘Vignette’ of the Arras Society of Friends of the Constitution, c. 1790. Archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais, 4J 167. x Illustrations 12. Anonymous, Festival of Federation at Arras, c. 1790. Archives départemen- tales du Pas-de-Calais, 4J 485/26. 13. F. G. Fiesinger, Robespierre, c. 1789, based on a sketch by Jean-Urbain Guérin. Archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais, 4J 472/128. 14. Anonymous, the Duplay house, Robespierre’s home in 1791–94, post 1789. 15. Éléonore Duplay, probably a self-portrait, c. 1791–94. Roger Viollet. 16. Louis Masquelier, The Paris Jacobin Club, 1791. Bibliothèque nationale de France. 17. Pierre Vigneron, Maximilien Robespierre, c. 1860, likely to have been painted from a sketch (now lost) for a portrait by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, c. 1791. Roger Viollet. 18. F. Bonneville, A. P. J. Robespierre, c. 1792. Roger Viollet. 19. Anonymous, Procession symbolique d’Arras, le 10 octobre 1793, c. 1793. Roger Viollet. 20. Anonymous, Robespierre, c. 1792. Roger Viollet. 21. The Centre of Revolutionary Government, from ‘Plan de Turgot’ by Louis Bretez, c. 1739. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 22. Anonymous, Robespierre at the Rostrum, c. 1792–93. Bibliothèque nationale de France. 23. Anonymous, Salle du Manège, c. 1791. 24. Robespierre’s ‘catechism’, 1793. Réunion des musées nationaux. 25. Attributed to Jacques-Louis David, Camille and Lucile Desmoulins with their son Horace, c. 1793. Roger Viollet. 26. François Gérard, Robespierre in the Convention, c. 1793. Roger Viollet. 27. François-Auguste de Parseval-Grandmaison, Robespierre under attack, 9 Thermidor. Bibliothèque nationale de France 28. Robespierre’s call to arms, 10 Thermidor. Roger Viollet. 29. Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, Robespierre lying wounded in the meeting-room of the Committee of Public Safety, c. 1794, based on a painting by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux. Roger Viollet. 30. Anonymous, ‘Robespierre, after having had all the French guillotined, beheads, the executioner with his own hand’, c. 1794. Roger Viollet. 31. Jean-Joseph Tassart, The Triumvir Robespierre, c. 1794. Bibliothèque nationale de France. 1 Arras in the late eighteenth century. To the left is the army ‘citadelle’, separated by the narrow Crinchon River from the ‘administrative town’ and cathedral, top centre, and the new ‘Basse Ville’, lower centre. The old heart of Arras is at right, dominated by the Abbey of St-Vaast, with the two main squares at lower right. 2 The College of Louis-le-Grand, c. 1780. The main entry to the College, on the Rue St- Jacques opposite the Sorbonne, and the inner courtyard where the boys took their recreation, surrounded by classrooms and the dining room. The chapel is at the rear. Maximilien lived here for twelve years. 3 The Latin Quarter. The remarkable map of Paris by Louis Bretez, c. 1739 (known as the ‘Plan de Turgot’), shows the College of Louis-le-Grand (here still the Collège des Jésuites) at bottom right. It was a short walk down the Rue St-Jacques through the Latin Quarter to the Île de la Cité, or up the hill to the city walls and the countryside. Bretez has deliberately widened the streets. 4 Maximilien de Robespierre, 1783. The young Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) painted this portrait while studying under Dominique Doncre in Arras after 1778. The young barrister may be flushed with his recent success in the case of the lightning conductor. Maximilien always enjoyed the companionship offered by dogs. 5 Charlotte Robespierre. This portrait of Charlotte (1760–1834) was probably completed in 1792–94 by Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767–1855), a pupil of Jacques-Louis David’s. Isabey would later have a long career as a court painter. 6 Louis-Hilaire de Conzié. Conzié (1732– 1805) was Bishop of Arras from 1769; Dominique Doncre’s portrait dates from 1775. Conzié appointed Robespierre a magistrate in his ecclesiastical court in 1782, but by 1788 the rupture between them was complete. Conzié fled the Revolution in 1790. 7 Ferdinand Dubois de Fosseux. Dubois (1742–1817), the eminent and genial Secretary of the Academy of Artois, was painted by Louis-Léopold Boilly in 1783. Although Dubois was a wealthy and powerful noble, the strained relations with Robespierre in 1788–89 did not terminate a long friendship. 8 Bon-Albert Briois de Beaumez. Briois (1759–c. 1801) was president of the Council of Artois after 1785 and a noble deputy at the Estates- General, where he became a trenchant opponent of Robespierre. He emigrated in 1792, took United States citizenship, and probably died in India in 1801. 9 Robespierre’s house in Arras. An early nineteenth-century view of the house at 9 Rue des Rapporteurs, close to the Council of Artois and the Town Hall, into which Maximilien and Charlotte moved in 1787. The facade has since been altered. The street has recently been named the Rue Robespierre, and the building houses a small museum. 10 The department of Pas-de-Calais. The new department, with Arras as its capital, was created in 1790 from the ancient province of Artois and coastal regions of Picardy. 11 The Arras Society of Friends of the Constitution. The Society was founded in 1790, here proclaiming its motto ‘To Live Free or Die’. After 1792 it became the Jacobin Club. 12 Festival of Federation at Arras. On 14 July 1790 the mayor of Arras, Dubois de Fosseux, and the bishop, Conzié, made speeches for the Festival of Federation on the Grand Marché, in front of National Guards and soldiers from the garrison. The image has been devised to be shown as a slide. 13 Robespierre in 1789. This engraving of Robespierre was produced by F. G. Fiesinger in 1789, based on a sketch by Jean- Urbain Guérin. It would become the template for later images. 14 Robespierre’s home in 1791–94. Maximilien’s room was on the first floor above the tap in the courtyard of the Duplays’ home in the rue St-Honoré.
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