Robespierristn.adj.

1800 tr. Hist. Campaign II. x. 206 All the power of the new government, aided by the threats of the Robespierrists with whom it had coalesced, was insufficient to compose a single jury at its devotion.

1834 tr. C. M. Catherinet de Villemarest Life Prince Talleyrand II. ix. 184 Having been an anarchist, an Orleanist, and not having been able to become a Robespierrist..he has now become a Directorist.

1929 L. R. Gottschalk Era of Fr. Revol. i. iii. iii. 263 (heading) The Robespierrists destroyed.

1960 Polit. Sci. Q. 75 320 Buonarroti's claim that he was a Robespierrist and not a Babouvist.

1981 M. Slavin & A. M. Smith Bourgeois, Sans-culottes, & other Frenchmen 1 How pro-Jacobin are the views of the writers?.. That there are ‘Robespierrists’ among them is probable.

2004 L. S. Frey & M. L. Frey French Revol. iii. 34 Eventually, 108 Robespierrists died on the guillotine.

1876 H. Sanson Mem. Sansons II. xlv. 205 In spite of the Robespierrist tendencies of the Faubourg, no hostile feeling was manifested.

1890 G. W. Smalley London Lett. (1891) I. 46 Louis Blanc..became the apologist of Robespierre, and his History is Robespierrist throughout.

1937 Downside Rev. Oct. 519 The majority of the Committee were unsympathetic and obstructive, which increased the tension between them and the Robespierrist minority.

1968 Hist. Teacher 1 54 The vision of the Left seems to be a cross between a cosmic love-in and a Robespierrist Republic of Virtue.

1975 G. Rudé Robespierre 9 It marks a welcome addition to Robespierrist studies.

2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Apr. 60/3 Bonaparte himself had initially been a ‘Robespierrist’ general.