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The Difference a Day Makes: Robespierre's 9 Thermidor | History News Network

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Colin Jones is Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of the forthcoming The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris (Oxford University Press, October, 2021) Jones argues that the fall of Maximilien Rob Espierre was achieved not by a parliamentary coup but by the mass action of Parisians.

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Donald Trump notoriously envied and strove to emulate the French celebration of the country’s national day, July 14, whose customary highlight is a huge military parade along the Champs-Elysées. Commemorating the day in 1789 when Parisians stormed the Bastille prison, it has become a symbol of resistance to despotic power. As those celebrations suggest, the French, perhaps more than other nations, do have a thing about historic days and this i…

3 years ago·Washington, United States

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