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The Fall of Robespierre:
24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris 

Talk in English by Professor Colin Jones CBE, FBS Book Prize winner 2021
Q&A in English.

Wednesday 22 June 2022
Meeting: 11.45 am for the talk followed
by a lunch at Café Tangerine, French Institute (
1.15pm to 2.45pm)
17 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2DT 
which includes a main course, a dessert. You can buy a glass of wine on the day for an extra £5.50 or a sparkling cordial, hot drink for an extra £2.50.


Ticket A: £35.00 FBS Members /£38.00 FBS Member's guest to include lunch.
Ticket B: £15.00 FBS Members /£18.00 FBS Member's guest - talk only, adult.
Ticket C: £6.00 - talk only, student (under 26). 

Small supplement for payments by Paypal. 
Bookings need to be confirmed by Monday 21 June 2022. 

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Image above: 19th century painting of the night of 9 Thermidor, espousing National Guardsman Merda's claim of having shot Robespierre. There is also the same picture without the gunsmoke, although no one can be sure which is most accurate.
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Special price for FBS members. Please send an email at francobritsoc@gmail.com to order pre the event.
At midnight on 26-17 July 1794 (8-9 Thermidor Year II in the Revolutionary Calendar), Robespierre contemplated the day ahead as a moment when he would defeat his enemies in the national assembly and prolong the period of terror in which he had played a leading part. At the end of the day, he faced not only the failure of his plans, but his likely execution. In his gripping new monograph, The Fall of ​Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris (2021), Colin Jones follows the ups and downs of one of the most turbulent and pivotal days in the French revolution, which saw Robespierre defeated and ordinary Parisians triumphant at his overthrow.

Colin Jones, CBE is Professor of History Emeritus at Queen Mary University of London and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. Among his many publications on French history are The Great Nation: France 1715-99 (2002), The Smile Revolution (2016) and Versailles (2018), His Paris: Biography of a City won the Enid MacLeod Prize in 2004.

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Le 9 Thermidor, huile sur toile, 40 x 63,5 cm by Raymond Quinsac Monvoisin- French painter (1794 / 1870).
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The execution of Robespierre and his supporters on 28 July 1794. Note: the beheaded man (6) is not Robespierre, but Couthon: Maximilien Robespierre (10) is shown sitting on the cart, dressed in brown, wearing a hat, and holding a handkerchief to his mouth. His younger brother Augustin (8) is being led up the steps to the scaffold.
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