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“The idea of a specifically Robespierrist terror was a myth, invented by the Termidoreans, the men who overthrew Robespierre, who themselves were very much implicated in the recourse to terror.”

Marisa Linton, Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution
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