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- adjective Of or pertaining to Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758–1794), one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution.
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For Paine, the Robespierrean annexation of religious property was not at all a separation between Church and State but, rather, a nationalizing by the State of the Church.
Reactionary Prophet 2004
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For Paine, the Robespierrean annexation of religious property was not at all a separation between Church and State but, rather, a nationalizing by the State of the Church.
Reactionary Prophet 2004
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[80] In the Radcliffian-literary not the Robespierrean-political sense.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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But in the tough economic times in which we live, when populist scorn cries out for Robespierrean blood, the quality of mercy should retain its noble place.
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But in the tough economic times in which we live, when populist scorn cries out for Robespierrean blood, the quality of mercy should retain its noble place.
unknown title 2009
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