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This volume explores Robespierre's vision and the events held across France on this day, which he declared a national day of celebration to inaugurate the state
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For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety
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