Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2021 8:21:59 GMT
Here's a really controversial take: Robespierre wasn't that bad. I wanted to make this the part 2 of my controversial ideas in history, where i just talk about Robespierre from the Terror to his execution, but i don't have the time and it's better to simply just have a discussion about the guy. Instead i'll be talking about Marquess De Sade in that part instead, who was also around during Robespierre's time. So yeah, what do you think of the man who pretty much orchestrated the Terror?
There are 2 major mistakes that i can think off that Robespierre did : Having Danton and Desmoulins executed and not mentioning the people he wanted to execute last. If he mentioned specifically who was going to be executed and made sure that the Terror would end afterwards, history would definitely be a lot different today. But, that last part was definitely his biggest screw-up. Of course, we can't talk about Robespierre without talking about the revolution, so that would be interesting. I'll just leave Mark Twain's quote about the Terror:
โTHERE were two โReigns of Terror,โ if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the โhorrorsโ of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terrorโthat unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.โ
There are 2 major mistakes that i can think off that Robespierre did : Having Danton and Desmoulins executed and not mentioning the people he wanted to execute last. If he mentioned specifically who was going to be executed and made sure that the Terror would end afterwards, history would definitely be a lot different today. But, that last part was definitely his biggest screw-up. Of course, we can't talk about Robespierre without talking about the revolution, so that would be interesting. I'll just leave Mark Twain's quote about the Terror:
โTHERE were two โReigns of Terror,โ if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the โhorrorsโ of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terrorโthat unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.โ
