Robespierre, who also recently directed episodes of And Just Like That…, Only Murders in the Building and Mrs. Fletcher, is repped by UTA and Tara Kole at Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett & Kole.

Robespierre started out as a provincial lawyer who fought for justice for the poor. He was, no kidding, a social justice warrior — and I mean that in a complimentary sense.

Fatefully, Robespierre chose to resolve this problem by trying to impose virtuous citizenship on French society by force. Robespierre's response to resistance (real or imagined) was, in Hegel's ...

Robespierre had a pale complexion and wore green-tinted glasses to protect his weak eyes from the glare of the sun. Carlyle’s portrait of him as the “sea-green incorruptible” is an ...

Maximilien Robespierre was one of the main instigators of the Terror, and a leading politician in France's National Convention. (Image credit: Wiki/ Musée Carnavalet) Victims of the Terror ...

Robespierre is not an easy man to like. Prudish and prickly, the anonymous small-town lawyer rose to leadership of the all-powerful Committee of Public Safety during the convulsive year of radical ...

Using a death mask that some historians believe was taken by Madame Tussaud herself just after Maximilian de Robespierre was guillotined, the researchers constructed a pockmarked, malevolent face ...

Robespierre's reputation for icy sadism may never recover from Ruth Scurr's devastatingly impartial biography. The lawyer from Arras who is supposed to have cared more about his powdered wig than ...

Robespierre, 39, based her new movie on her own teenage upbringing in New York City and on her parents’ divorce, which happened when she was in high school.