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* [[A God Am I]]: During the Festival of the Supreme Being, as he came down with the festival procession, Jacques-Alexis Thuriot is quoted as saying "Look at the bugger; it's not enough for him to be master, he has to be God." |
* [[A God Am I]]: During the Festival of the Supreme Being, as he came down with the festival procession, Jacques-Alexis Thuriot is quoted as saying "Look at the bugger; it's not enough for him to be master, he has to be God." |
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* [[Full-Circle Revolution]]: His downfall was related to one. |
* [[Full-Circle Revolution]]: His downfall was related to one. |
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* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: He was eventually executed via guillotine, the fate he and his regime assigned to so many others. |
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: He was eventually executed via guillotine, the fate he and his regime assigned to so many others. |
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* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: Going from 'lawyer highly respected by the common people' to 'main figure in a [[Reign of Terror]] who winds up being [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Hoisted By His Own Petard]]' would be bad enough, but a little bit of [[Verbal Irony|irony]] makes it [[It Got Worse|worse]]: in the early phases of the Revolution, Robespierre wrote a little pamphlet about ''how the death penalty is wrong, and should not be used''<ref>He went very quickly from 'maybe it can be justified, in certain extreme circumstances' to 'it is a useful tool', thus ''Jumping Off'' The Slippery Slope</ref> |
* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: Going from 'lawyer highly respected by the common people' to 'main figure in a [[Reign of Terror]] who winds up being [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Hoisted By His Own Petard]]' would be bad enough, but a little bit of [[Verbal Irony|irony]] makes it [[It Got Worse|worse]]: in the early phases of the Revolution, Robespierre wrote a little pamphlet about ''how the death penalty is wrong, and should not be used''.<ref>He went very quickly from 'maybe it can be justified, in certain extreme circumstances' to 'it is a useful tool', thus ''Jumping Off'' The Slippery Slope</ref> |
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** More generally, his actions throughout his revolutionary career were directed at creating a just society and preserving a nation in crisis. He jumped off the slope (according to some) by using terror to achieve this. |
** More generally, his actions throughout his revolutionary career were directed at creating a just society and preserving a nation in crisis. He jumped off the slope (according to some) by using terror to achieve this. |
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* [[Just the First Citizen]]: deputy and Member of the Committee of Public Safety |
* [[Just the First Citizen]]: deputy and Member of the Committee of Public Safety |
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== Works featuring this character == |
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* ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'' |
* ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'' |
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* ''[[Le Chevalier d'Eon]]'' |
* ''[[Le Chevalier d'Eon]]'' |