Trial and terror – an account in Robespierre’s own hand
THE man who oversaw the French Revolution's 'reign of terror' but who finally met his end at the guillotine himself, Maximilien de Robespierre, was back on the block again at the end of last month as Sotheby's auctioned an extraordinary cache of documents in Paris.
Previously unknown, the papers which were all handwritten by "the incorruptible one" between January…