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How did key individuals influence the revolution?Robespierre:
Important speaker- recognised at time as key thinker n NA
Proposes lots of new measures which are adopted up until 1791- ie when legislative
assembly is formed suggests people who’d sat in NA couldn’t sit there
Starts off in Jacobin club- initially he’s pro rev but not most radical of individuals
Gradually as the rev continues he becomes increasingly radical and the club splits
He ends up being main architect behind the Terror, using his skill as a lawyer
Guillotined 1794 at point when people start to turn against the Terror
Danton:
Quite radical and anti-monarchy
Involved in Cordeliers club- when king tries to escape, Danton was one calling for end of
monarchy; backfires and has to flee to England
Starts off more radical but as others become more radical ie Robespierre he starts to say he
doesn’t want the Terror- leads to downfall as not ‘true’ revolutionary
Desmoulins:
Starts off radical, anti-nobility and anti-monarchy
Involved in Cordeliers club
Important writer; spreading the awareness to a wider range of people
His radicalism doesn’t mean he supports the Terror, similar to Danton thinks was too far;
loses power as he speaks out against extremes of revolution
Hebert:
Radical, similar to Marat, important in appealing to common people in Paris
Important in Terror and taking it to the extremes
Starts off very radical and stays that way throughout the revolution
Jean-Paul Marat
Background:
Born in Switzerland 24 May 1743, died 13 July 1793 (assassinated in his bath-
became a martyr for the Jacobin cause)
A French political theorist, physician and scientist
A journalist and politician during the French Revolution; he published his views in
pamphlets, placards + newspapers
He was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes and seen as a radical voice
Group(s) they belonged to:
A symbol of the radical Montagnard faction during the revolution (the radical Jacobin
deputies in the National Convention, noted for their democratic outlook; they controlled the
government during the climax of the Revolution in 1793–94)
Because of his polemics against the French monarchy + aristocracy he was influential in the
rise of the Jacobin Club (most famous political group of the revolution, which became
identified with extreme egalitarianism + violence)
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