Movie Night at Ypsi Historical Society-The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) - Patch
24 May 2012, 8:23 pm
He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from robespierre's Reign of Terror.

Rhetoric riles with paranoia, conspiracy theory - Durango Herald
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
Alas, no known form of governance has transcended human nature. robespierre, a staunch French Republican, was a rabble-rousing demagogue. Hitler’s Nazi depredations followed a Democratic election in a Republic. And mob violence is well ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Radical leftist groups are misguiding youth - Kitsap Sun
22 May 2012, 2:56 pm
We have heard it all before. Readers, feel free to add to list of persons who promised social justice: Danton, robespierre, Marx, Lenin, Tito, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot, Daniel Ortega, Castro, Hugo Chavez.

Le Diner en Blanc - Patch
20 May 2012, 12:28 pm
“Terror is nothing else than justice; prompt, severe, inflexible.” Ahh yes, the light hearted and thoughtful robespierre -- ended up being guillotined due to laws he had allowed to be passed; resulting in execution without trial to “counter-revolutionaries.

Path of the American woodsman - Berkshire Eagle
18 May 2012, 11:15 pm
According to Jean-Jacque's future father-in-law, Jean-Jacques gave "us some horrid accounts of the cruelties practiced during the time of that monster robespierre and his agents Carrier and others in Nantes where his father lives. His parents ...

A Sweet Tart Named Desiree - Examiner
18 May 2012, 10:29 am
When robespierre’s guillotining is given its one-line mention, viewers can be assured that it’s merely a preamble to discuss that year’s plunging necklines.  Hey, like we said, it’s a woman’s picture.  Simmons herself cited that the hardest ...

Taking It to the Streets in Spain - Counter Punch
14 May 2012, 1:11 pm
As robespierre pointed out more than 200 years ago, “The first social law is thus that which guarantees to all society’s members the means of existence …” A basic income could bring this law into effect.

Prom advice from a veteran - Voice News
14 May 2012, 6:09 am
Preferably in French. Julien's, Henri's, the Papillon Grill. Absolutely avoid those with a name such as robespierre's or Madame DuFarge's. You could lose your birthright as well as your head. If the menu is 24 pages long and has golden tassels ...

DON PESCI: Some winners and losers - Register Citizen
12 May 2012, 9:35 pm
robespierre battle cry, it will be recalled, was that men would lose their chains only when “the last monarch is strangled with the intestines of the last priest.” All legislation — but perhaps most especially budgets bills — have social implications.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hollande victory means fiscal ruin - Washington Times
7 May 2012, 6:56 pm
To hear her tell it, nothing creates jobs like food stamps. Who needs the Occupy movement when the Bastille has just been stormed and a 21st century robespierre is ready with a new Reign of (Economic) Terror? God help the French.