Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017.

In “What Were Robespierre’s Pronouns?” (Declarations, July 27), Peggy Noonan draws an astute analogy between the radical purists of the French Revolution and our increasingly strident left ...

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 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.

In the months that followed, the severe and inflexible justice of the guillotine severed 12,000 heads, including Robespierre's. Of course, ...

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 was 36 when he was executed. A funeral mask was moulded just after his decapitation, and a copy of it is held at the Granet Museum, in Aix-­en-­Provence, southern France.

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.