As for my actual opinion of Robespierre, he was well-meaning but utterly, dreadfully inept at politics. He was basically brainwashed by Rousseau's thought, to the extent that he developed outlandish notions of how the world should be. And when people obviously failed to conform to these notions, he was completely lost. As I said once, he was basically the original True Leftist.
To be honest I wouldn't have minded the Reign of Terror, if it was actually carried out in a way that could help cement the Revolution and destroy the reactionary forces. In fact, the guy who actually created the Revolutionary Tribunal, Danton, is a personal hero of mine. But the fact is that what Robespierre achieved was the exact opposite of that, and by the time he was kicked out of power due to the fact he had basically alienated everybody, France experienced a conservative backlash that would last for about 30 years.
Anyone who has any basic notion of French history will tell you Robespierre was a moron and a failure.
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