Robespierre
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Robespierre
- The French Revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre, 1758–1794. Often used as a byword for a murderous demagogue or tyrant.
- 1863, Edward Dicey, Spectator of America[1], Quadrangle, published 1971, page 25:
- Why, Greeley wants to be blood-thirsty — he wants to be a little Robespierre.
- 1922 October 2, “Gonatas Not a Robespierre”, in Boston Daily Globe[2]:
- "I am not, as you have seen, a Robespierre, and I don't even want to be thought of as a military dictator," said Col Gonatas, leader of the revolutionary movement, […]
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Robespierre ?
- a French surname