Yellow Irises‏ By Claude Monet + Daffodils By William Wordsworth

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Illustrations from Marat’s Recherches physiques sur le Feu, 1780

légende noire: archive project

In the immediate aftermath of the events of Thermidor, both the actors and spectators of these events sought to give meaning to what had just happened ; à chaud, a new imaginary was taking shape, centred around the person of Robespierre: his légende noire, which would impose itself over the next decades, slowly began to emerge in numerous speeches, proclamations, pamphlets etc. This “black legend”, which drew on the tropes and motifs that had characterised earlier attacks on Robespierre, would later acquire some degree of coherence, but at the time of its birth, it was still widely heterogeneous and, at times, even contradictory.

In the course of this research project, I have compiled some of the most influential speeches, writings and images that were published during or immediately after the events of 9 / 10 Thermidor, and which, in some cases, came to shape Robespierre’s légende noire as we know it today.

protocols, speeches, reports & proclamations

Session of 9 Thermidor at the National Convention

Report on the conspiracy against the national representation, plotted by Robespierre, Couthon, Saint-Just, Lebas &c. (9 Thermidor)

Proclamation of the National Convention (9 Thermidor)

Léonard Bourdon’s intervention at the Convention (10 Thermidor)

Report of the Committees of Public Safety & General Security on the “conspiracy of Robespierre etc.” (10 Thermidor)

Barère, au nom du comité de salut public (11 Thermidor)

Barère’s report on the reorganisation of the Committees (14 Thermidor)

Barras’ speech on the journées of Thermidor (27 Thermidor)

pamphlets & other writings

Robespierre’s Tail (Méhée de La Touche)

Robespierre peint par lui-même […] (Laurent Lecointre)

On Robespierre’s conspiracy (Rouget de Lisle)

Véritable portrait de Catilina Robespierre (Jean Joseph Dussault)

Portrait of Robespierre (Merlin de Thionville)

La journée du 9 thermidor (André Pépin Bellement)

On the fall of Robespierre and his accomplices (C. Dejean)

Le front de Robespierre, et de sa clique […] (Baraly)

Execrable Portraits of the traitor Robespierre […] (J. J. Dussault)

Horrible conspiration formée, pour porter Robespierre à la royauté (Anonymous)

Facts collected in the last moments of Robespierre and of his faction, from 9 to 10 Thermidor (Anonymous)

Vie secrette, politique et curieuse de M. J. Maximilien Robespierre […] (L. Duperron)

Fréron’s notes on Robespierre

engravings & medallions

IX Thermidor Year II (Charles Monnet)

Thermidorian medallion from Lyon (Anonymous)

Act of Justice from 9 to 10 Thermidor (Viller)

M. J. Maximilien Robespierre: nicknamed the modern Catiline, executed on 10 Thermidor Year 2 of the Republic (Anonymous)

The Triumvir Robespierre (Jean Joseph François Tassaert)

Robespierre guillotining the executor (Anonymous)

Triumphant Equality or The Punished Triumvirate (Villeneuve)

The Government of Robespierre (Anonymous)

The French People, or Robespierre’s System (A. Chataignier)

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