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Line 1: {{Useful Notes}} [[File:~~170px~~Labille-~~Robespierre03~~Guiard Robespierre.jpg\|~~frame~~thumb\|350px]] A'''Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre''' was a major figure of the [[The French Revolution\|French Revolution]]. A lawyer from the town of Arras, he was an advocate of human rights as defined by Rousseau, whom he admired deeply. As a "lawyer for the common people", he gained respect and prominence among the locals, who eventually elected him to represent them in the Estates-General, France's pre-revolutionary representative body. Shortly after the Estates-General convened in 1789, the Revolution began with the Tennis Court Oath, in which the representatives of the common people decided to push for a constitution and governmental reform for France. Robespierre was influential in the formation of the intended new government and became a prominent member of the radical Jacobin Club (political "clubs" were in some ways parallel to political parties in modern democratic states). During the short lived constitutional monarchy, many revolutionaries including the Girondin advocated going to war in order to spread the ideas of the French Revolution. Robespierre took a hardline stance against the war, warning that, "No one loves armed missionaries." However, despite his protests France declared war a few months later on Austria and Prussia. Line 77: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Historical Domain Character]] ~~[[Category:Maximilien Robespierre]]~~ [[Category:Politicians]] [[Category:Lawyers]] [[Category:Examples Need Sorting]]