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The Salle des Girondins displays a guillotine blade, the crucifix to which Marie-Antoinette prayed, and the lock used on Robespierre’s cell.
With Austrian and German armies massing on France’s frontiers and the forces of counter-revolution gathering inside the country, the militant revolutionary Jacobins led by Maximilien de Robespierre saw the king’s flight as the ultimate betrayal.
Social conservative leader Paul Weyrich recently made the cover of the New Republic as a Republican Robespierre who is destroying his party in a mad quest for conservative purity.
And amid the detritus, one could find a scrawled phrase by a character in an earlier novel by Robert Littel, Mother Russia , a man improbably named Robespierre Pravdin: I have seen the future, and it needs work.
Despite his attempts to quell the extremists, Robespierre was overthrown and guillotined in the counterattack of the propertied classes.