Invisible man
Invisible manRevolutionary Leaders The effects of the French Revolution were far reaching in terms of both place and time. The political
revolution evolved and changed government like a geological palatial shift changes landscape dramatically and violently. Leaders
of the revolution rose and fell radically, all influencing this new ideal. Not only one of the greatest military leaders in history, but
one of the greatest political and social leaders, Napoleon Bonaparte best personifies the ideals of the entire French Revolution in
contrast to Maximilien Robespierre who provided a dramatic extreme in the overall purpose of change. Robespierre was
completely polar towards the extreme revolutionaries. Their �Reign of Terror� attempted to stamp out all resistance, and any
country who revolted against their rulers were offered help in doing so. Robespierre, as a leader of the Jacobins, was passionate
and he demanded power throughout the Reign of Terror. He defended this by saying a revolutionary government has the right to
�summon extraordinary activity�. He felt he literally had the right to make up rules as needed, as there were no established rules
during that time. This was to rationalize the atrocities he felt necessary and justified. This was a repressive environment,
unbending and too rigid for the French People. Innocent people could be accused of being �outside the sovereign� and
executed. Robespierre�s position became precarious, and the people of the National Convention began to feel threatened by his
so called �emergency measures of terror�. On July 27 1794, rightists joined the Plain - the right wing of the National Convention
- in a rising of the Convention, and Robespierre was arrested, tried, and executed by the guillotine on July 28. His position,
although totally against the royals, did not embody the desires of the French people nor did he lay a political path to follow.
Although Napoleon was defeated at his best game in the end, his ideas and those of the revolution remained. The French people
desperately wanted revolutionary change, but with more order and stability than was offered through Robespierre. Napoleon
promised to the French people a worthy government: order, liberty, and equality; all things the French held to be important after
recently surviving such a harsh and drastic revolution. Napoleon Bonaparte...
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