Robespierre's Tail: The Possibilities of Justice after the Terror
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Abstract
The defeat of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor year II (27 July 1794) soon posed the problem of how to deal with both the perpetrators and the victims of the "Reign of Terror." Recent experiences of replacing illiberal regimes with more liberal ones teach the need for various compromises between justice and politics, generally known as transitional justice. The Thermidorians lacked such examples and so explored many of these compromises without accepting the need for them. By tracing the National Convention's path from the rhetoric of justice developed to legitimize Thermidor, through attempts at scapegoating, retribution, judicial rectification, property restitution, selective clemency, and the flawed amnesty that launched the Directory, we become aware of the sincerity, and not just the cynicism, with which the Thermidorians confronted the problems of transitional justice. The combination of modern experiences and the assessments of contemporaries reveals the possibilities of justice after the Terror.
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