Cathy Young
1 min readSep 13, 2020

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Thank you! This 1911 article by historian Louis Madelin has a very interesting passage about Robespierre’s profound misogyny — he notes that Robespierre had a particular hatred and suspicion not only toward women but toward men he perceived as “led by women,” including Danton. I didn’t have a chance to get into this, but ironically this may have also contributed to Robespierre’s downfall — a central figure in the Thermidor coup, Tallien, was pushed to rebel against Robespierre by the arrest, and presumably impending execution, of his lover (and future wife) Thérése.

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Cathy Young
Cathy Young

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Russian-Jewish-American writer. Associate editor, Arc Digital; contributor, Reason, Newsday, The Forward etc. https://www.patreon.com/CathyYoung

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