'Maximilien Robespierre', c1780, (1890). Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) French lawyer and politician, one of the best known figures in the French Revolution. He campaigned for universal manhood suffrage, abolition of celibacy and of slavery. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]