The cover page is adapted from The Festival of the Fédération, 14 July 1790, on the Champ-de-Mars, a painting completed in 1792 by Charles Thévenin. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Th%C3%A9veninwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Fall of Robespierre
Chapters (4)
- Dedication 0:00
- Act I 0:53
- Act II 18:56
- Act III 37:15
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The French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre has risen to prominence within the new French National Convention. A radical Jacobin, he oversees the draconian planning and implementation of the Reign of Terror, including mass arrests and summary executions. But as his policies result in more and more bloodshed, he begins to fear that a conspiracy is afoot—one that will eventually turn the Convention, and the very policies he champions, against him.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey wrote this poetic drama less than three months after Robespierre was guillotined in the Place de la Révolution. Originally Coleridge was to write the first act, Southey the second, and Robert Lovell the third; but Southey was displeased with Lovell’s contribution, so Southey rewrote it himself.