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Le mystère des portraits de Robespierre aux rayures (2022)
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Gilchrist, M. (2022). Le mystère des portraits de Robespierre aux rayures. [Webpage text with illustrations]

The portrait of Robespierre in a striped coat (Musée Carnavalet P.729) is probably his most popular and most reproduced portrait in modern times. However, in researching his iconography, I was surprised to find it was not in circulation during his li... Read More about Le mystère des portraits de Robespierre aux rayures.

Robespierre au cinéma anglophone (2022)
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Gilchrist, M. (2022). Robespierre au cinéma anglophone. [Webpage text with illustrations]

Anglophone cinema and television has generally presented a hostile image of Robespierre. It is rooted in propaganda of the Pitt era but was expanded and elaborated in the 19C by Carlyle, Lamartine, Marie Tussaud, and a number of historical novels and... Read More about Robespierre au cinéma anglophone.

Qui sont ces « faux Robespierres » ? (2020)
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Gilchrist, M. (2020). Qui sont ces « faux Robespierres » ?. [Webpage text with illustrations]

On-line article on the physionotrace ‘grand trait’ of a deputy of the Third Estate catalogued at Versailles as 'Maximilien Robespierre' (Versailles, Inv. Dess. 1068). This portrait has appeared on the covers of Robespierre biographies by Ruth Scurr a... Read More about Qui sont ces « faux Robespierres » ?.