Ever since he lost his head to Madame Guillotine in 1794, the historical jury has been out on the life and legacy of Maximilien de Robespierre, French revolutionary and architect of la Grande Terreur.

He was riddled with jaundice, pock-marked, bloody and twitchy. A new scientific analysis shows French revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre was probably suffering from an organ-destroying immune ...

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Maximilien de Robespierre, the infamous French revolutionary leader, may have been suffering from a rare immune disorder when he was guillotined in 1794, experts say. The evidence emerged after ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two and a quarter centuries after he was guillotined on what is now Place de la Concorde in Paris, Maximilien ...

The French state has stopped an auction of manuscripts written by French revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre in Paris. The state preempted the sale of the collection, responding to an appeal from ...

Reading an article on Maximilien Robespierre published in the New York Review of Books (23 June 2022) has led me to reflect (or more accurately, further reflect) on both my short time as an active ...

Ever since the "prime public functionary" - previously known as Louis XVI - lost his head on the Place de la Révolution in Paris, Maximilien de Robespierre has been seen as the evil, green-eyed genius ...

Assassin's Creed: Unity has drawn ire from those who hail Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre as a hero of the Revolution and the people, as opposed to a bloodthirsty tyrant. In ...