Discours Par Maximilien Robespierre — 17 Avril 1792-27 Juillet 1794

These are the raw, unfiltered words of the French Revolution itself, spoken by the man who became its most powerful and terrifying voice. This collection spans the eighteen months that transformed France from monarchy to republic to the height of the Terror, capturing Robespierre at his most eloquent, his most combative, his most certain. Here is the rhetoric of virtue and terror, of liberty and death, of a man who believed so completely in his principles that he would send thousands to their deaths to defend them. The speeches reveal Robespierre defending himself against accusations from Brissot and Guadet, articulating his vision of a republic built on the Rights of Man, justifying the violence he called necessary for revolutionary purity. You hear the cadence of a man who saw himself as the embodiment of the Republic, who believed that mercy was weakness and that the enemies of liberty deserved no quarter. This is primary source material at its most essential, not the Robespierre of history books, but Robespierre in his own words, making his case to the Convention and to posterity.