Posted on 07/27/2020 7:06:50 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
July 27th, 1794 — the 9th of Thermidor, year II — is inscribed in history as the day Robespierre fell, when a parliamentary coup d’etat between the right and the remnants of the parties he had destroyed shouted him down as he readied the National Convention for his next purge...Even as the month of Thermidor’s eponymous epochal event was unfolding, the daily gears of Revolutionary justice were turning: the usual haul of unfortunates condemned, including seven women from the previous day’s batch of Saint Lazare prison conspirators who had pled their bellies to buy a day.
That day was one day too little...
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I want to go in my sleep, like grand-dad, and not screaming like a bitch, like Robespierre.
This is one of the most interesting parts of FR so thank you Nd I hope you keep posting this book
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