HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Maximilien Robespierre, Tyrant, French Revolution
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He is making a speech to the national convention which is the republic pf the government of france, which overthrew the monarchy. You have to pretend that you are representative a part of france, and you came a long way to participate in this experiment that hasn"t happened in history, you are a common man, not a noble. 1) you have to understand how bold, radical, and out of step of tradition the french revolution was. 2) how to listen, you must try to be very active in note taking, try to identify the a) concrete reasons to agree: try to look for emotional reasons that is used to guide your judgement. There is rhetoric, how it is framed so as to get a point across. Refer to it as bold move we took to speak to ourselves . France, write a constitution, and we are suddenly here discussing this confusion.