HIST20068 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Carl Von Clausewitz, Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport, Maximilien Robespierre
18 Oct 2018
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Brissot: [jacobins are] disorganisers who wish to level everything: property, leisure, the price of provisions, the various services to be rendered to society". In 1793 such a force as no one had any conception of made its appearance. Popular activists in paris who exercised power through neighbourhood assemblies and by joining insurgent crowds at moments if crisis. Always goes about on foot, has no millions no chateaux, no valets to serve him and who is housed simply with his wife and children, if he has them, on the fourth or fth oor . Knows how to work a eld, how to forge, saw, le roof, make shoes and spill blood to the last drop for the good of the republic. Always has his sober with the razor"s edge to cut o the ears of all the malefactors. Urged government to regulate economy and revue gap between rich and poor.
