Maximilien Robespierre

(1758-1794)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794 LBT ID: MaRobes1794 VIAF ID: 89401473 LOC ID: n50061705	B/BAP: 1758-05-06 DIED: 1794-07-28
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The most dogmatic and aggressive of French revolutionary leaders; he sent Danton to the guillotine.
REFERENCES TO Maximilien Robespierre: Frederick Foster to Lady Melbourne, [November 1802] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Extraordinary Case of the late Mr. Southey” in The Examiner (11 May 1817) 236-37 Found 1: ¶ 14 Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) THE AWAKENING. Verse 2: p. 11b p. 11b William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XXV. 1794-1800 Found 1: ¶ 4 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Galt’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (October 1830) 347-70 Found 1: ¶ 3 Sir Walter Scott to Lady Louisa Stuart, 31 October 1830 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Moore’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 3 (March 1831) 238-252 Found 1: ¶ 38 Robert Southey to Sir Archibald Alison, 17 April 1833 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1825 Found 1: ¶ 46 Chapter VI 1830 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXV. 1832-1834 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IX. Found 1: ¶ 94 Chapter II. Found 8: ¶ 107 ¶ 108 ¶ 110 ¶ 111 ¶ 112 ¶ 113 ¶ 114 ¶ 115 Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 11 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VII Found 1: ¶ 11 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. V. 1802-1803 Found 1: ¶ 1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter V. 1842-44. Found 1: ¶ 42 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) CARDINAL RUFFO Found 1: ¶ 9 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter III.