robespierreism

Updated: May 9, 2025

Then, in time, the dooming to death of some of the prominent polecats who committed murder in the name of liberty and fraternity brought Robespierreism to an end. Robespierre himself was cursed on the scaffold by a woman who sent him to "hell with the curses of all wives and mothers," and Samson did the rest.

Baron Walter Runciman Runciman - The Tragedy of St. Helena