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Sentence count:22+1 Only show simple sentencesPosted:2017-02-09Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: pierceobesitymicrobeto be surewardrobephotocopierbespeakbespokeMeaning: n. French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'etat (1758-1794). 
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1. One after the other Danton, Robespierre and the rest went to the guillotine.
2. Robespierre had to make his speeches in the Jacobin Club, as he was not eligible for election to the Assembly.
3. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. And Charles X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word.
4. At that time(http://sentencedict.com), the ruling Jacobin faction leader Robespierre strongly supports this request.
5. But when Robespierre himself became the leader, he claimed that the division of the powers of government would be a bad thing now that the power belonged "to the people."
6. Robespierre was only 31 in 1789, and he was 36 when he was sent to the guillotine.
7. Some of France's greatest luminaries, including Rabelais and Robespierre, are believed to lie somewhere in the massive ossuary.
8. Not until he, Robespierre, shall have accomplished these miracles, as he so rightly calls them, will he permit the law to reign again.
9. According to Robespierre, who copies Rousseau literally, the legislator begins by decreeing the end for which the commonwealth has come into being.
10. Finally in the summer of 1794 Robespierre himself was overthrown and guillotined.
11. Robespierre, who represented himself as spokesman for the people, first said that the division of the powers of government was a good thing when it diminished the authority of the king.
12. For Maximilien Robespierre, chief architect of the reign of terror that followed the revolution, God and religion were far too useful in keeping the population in line.
13. He had it explained to him, and was told only that the death of Robespierre had brought a considerable change.
14. In the dream he became a participant, as a prisoner of a revolutionary tribunal whose judges included Marat and Robespierre.
15. But also true is that America's revolutionary history was exceptional because we had a Washington while the French had a Robespierre and the Egyptians had a Nasser.
16. The revolution was now under the sway of a fanatical leader, Robespierre.
17. Were I such, the kings we have vanquished, far from denouncing Robespierre, would lend me their guilty support.
18. But the violent revolutionists in their midst, led by Robespierre, Danton, and Marat, were opposed to concentrated power only so long as someone else exercised it.
19. In October he retired to the country and, in his absence, Robespierre consolidated power.
20. Danton never killed anyone personally, and by the standards of the merciless Maximilien de Robespierre he was doubtless an angel.
21. This would probably have been the case in the French Revolution too, had the movies been invented in time for the likes of Robespierre to lop off the heads of pesky auteurs.
22. What if Europe should accept the paradox that its democratic openness is based on exclusion – that there is "no freedom for the enemies of freedom", as Robespierre put it long ago?
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