"The ultimate irony was that the person who, in the early part of his career, expressed belief in those values most luminously – and in a way that can still speak to us all – was Maximilien Robespierre, the great loser of 9 Thermidor.”
UM. I mean I've seen academic revisionist history before but that's a new one!
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Date: 2024-05-29 06:37 am (UTC)UM. I mean I've seen academic revisionist history before but that's a new one!