Robespierre

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani links Robespierre to Rousseau, who was his idol, and to the will to make reason perceptible to the senses, of which the Festival of the Supreme Being is the illustration: a secular religion, his best intention, which failed12. He also makes him the figure of abstract virtue, the Incorruptible who refuses all enjoyment and guillotines in its name, the opposite of Sade34. He nevertheless corrects the image of the "bloodthirsty" Robespierre: Robespierre was outraged by Carrier's drownings in Nantes, whereas the bicentenary presented him as an executioner56. He notes that Robespierre sets freedom as a principle, holds social inequality to be necessary without accepting that it be sanctioned politically, and recognizes the State7. He compares him to Napoleon, "Robespierre on horseback", who succeeded by force where Robespierre remained isolated. He also takes up Nerval's account, which shows him as a very young man at Ermenonville.

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7. 7Ce soir, on repolitise. 1ère partie12 Mar 2018 · 23:30

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