Editing Augustin Robespierre (section)

==Early life==
Robespierre was born in [[Arras, France|Arras]], the youngest of four children of the lawyer Maximilien-Barthelemy-François de Robespierre and Jacqueline-Marguerite Carrault, the daughter of a brewer. His mother died when he was one year old, and his grief-stricken father abandoned the family to go to Bavaria, where he died in 1777.<ref name="Scurr">{{cite book |first=Ruth |last=Scurr |title=Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution |publisher=Henry Holt & Sons |year=2007 |isbn=9781466805781}}</ref>{{rp|17–19}} Augustin was brought up by his grandparents.<ref name="McPhee">{{cite book |first=Peter |last=McPhee |title=Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0300118117}}</ref>{{rp|4}} His brother Maximilien had won a scholarship from the [[Abbey of St. Vaast]] to pay for his studies at the [[Lycée Louis-le-Grand]] and had been such an outstanding student that when he obtained his degree in law, he asked the Abbot, [[Cardinal de Rohan]], if he would transfer the scholarship to his younger brother to allow him to follow the same career. The Cardinal agreed and Augustin Robespierre took up his brother's place studying law.<ref name="Scurr"/>{{rp|31}}<ref>{{cite book |first=John Laurence |last=Carr |title=Robespierre; the Force of Circumstance |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1972 |isbn=9780094578500}}</ref>{{rp|16}}

Although his political views were very similar to those of his brother, Robespierre was very different in character. Handsome, he was also fond of good food, gaming and the company of women,<ref name="Matrat">{{cite book |first=Jean |last=Matrat |translator-first=Alan |translator-last=Kendall |title=Robespierre, or the Tyranny of the Majority |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |year=1975 |isbn=9780684140551}}</ref>{{rp|169}} and called "[[Bonbon]]". At the outset of the Revolution, Robespierre was prosecutor-syndic of Arras.<ref name="Thompson">{{cite book |first=J. M. |last=Thompson |title=Robespierre |publisher=Borodino Books |year=2017 |orig-year=1935 |isbn=9781787205185}}</ref>{{rp|292}} Together with [[Martial Herman]] he founded a political club in the town and wrote to his brother to secure its affiliation with the [[Jacobins]] in Paris.<ref name="Scurr"/>{{rp|115}} In 1791, he was appointed administrator of the ''[[Departments of France|département]]'' of [[Pas-de-Calais]].