Example sentences for: robespierre

How can you use “robespierre” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Morris, it seems, has taken his philosophy less from Robespierre than from Louis XIV: l'Internet, c'est moi .

  • The Salle des Girondins displays a guillotine blade, the crucifix to which Marie-Antoinette prayed, and the lock used on Robespierre’s cell.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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