Editing Augustin Robespierre (section)

==Convention==
[[File:Charlotte Robespierre.jpg|thumb|Charlotte Robespierre]]

Robespierre stood for election to the new [[Legislative Assembly (France)|Legislative Assembly]] in Arras in August 1791, but his views were too radical for the town, which elected another young lawyer, [[Sixte François Deusy]] instead.<ref name="Matrat" />{{rp|122}} However, on 16 September 1792, Robespierre was elected to the [[National Convention]], 19th out of 24 deputies, with 392 votes out of 700 cast,<ref name="Assemblee" /> by the voters of Paris,<ref name="Robert">{{Cite book |last=Robert |first=Jean Baptiste Magloire |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwgxAQAAIAAJ |title=Vie politique de tous les députés à la Convention nationale |date=1814 |publisher=Chez L. Saintmichel |language=fr}}</ref>{{rp|565}} and he joined his brother in [[The Mountain]] and the [[Jacobin Club]].<ref name="Scurr"/>{{rp|208}} At the Convention he distinguished himself by the vehemence of his attacks on the royal family and on aristocrats. During the [[trial of Louis XVI]] he voted for the death penalty to be applied within 24 hours.<ref name="Robert" />{{rp|565}}

When he first came to Paris to take his seat he was accompanied by his sister [[Charlotte de Robespierre|Charlotte]], and they both lodged with Maximilien in the house of [[Maurice Duplay]] in the [[Rue Saint Honoré]]. Like his brother Maximilien, Augustin refused to marry Duplay's daughter [[Éléonore Duplay|Éléonore]].<ref>[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5809871j/f1n198.pdf?download=1, Mémoires de Charlotte Robespierre sur ses deux frères, pp. 90–91]</ref>{{sfn|Robespierre|2006}}{{sfn|Hampson|1974|p=87}} <!--Augustin moved out from the Duplays when he was sent on mission to the Midi.--> Soon, Charlotte persuaded Maximilien to come with them to a new lodging in the nearby [[Rue Saint-Florentin, Paris|Rue Saint-Florentin]] because of his increased prestige and her tensions with Madame Duplay. However, this arrangement did not last long. 

At the end of July 1793, Robespierre was sent on a mission to [[Alpes-Maritimes]] to suppress the [[Federalist revolts|Federalist revolt]],<ref name="Assemblee" /> together with another deputy from the convention, [[Jean François Ricord]]. Charlotte accompanied him. Much of southeastern France (Midi) was in rebellion against the Republic, and they barely made it alive after an attack by counter-revolutionaries in [[Manosque]] on August 12, 1793. In September 1793, they arrived in Nice where they felt secure enough to attend the theatre, but on the third occasion they did so, they were pelted with rotten apples.<ref name="Scurr"/>{{rp|252}} Meanwhile Robespierre discovered a pamphlet entitled ''[[Le souper de Beaucaire]]'' (''The supper at Beaucaire''), written by [[Napoleon]], and was impressed by the revolutionary context.<ref name="Chandler" />{{rp|21}} Napoleon was promoted into the position of senior gunner at [[Siege of Toulon (1793)|Toulon]].<ref>Dwyer, p. 136.</ref> On 17 December Augustin stayed in [[Ollioules]]. On 19 December 1793 Augustin did not take part in the military action, led by [[Jacques François Dugommier|Dugommier]] and Napoleon, which retook Toulon from the British.<ref name="Scurr"/>{{rp|258}} He seems to have left a few hours before or the day after and was not present when [[Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron|Fréron]] took revenge on the population. When he returned to Paris, Augustin decided not to move in with Charlotte; they were no longer on speaking terms.<ref>{{cite book|title=Thermidor: d'après les sources originales et les documents authentiques|url=http://bibliotheq.net/ernest-hamel/thermidor/page-133.html|last=Hamel|first=Ernest|page=133|oclc=1096803462}}</ref> In early January Augustin Robespierre was shocked at the changed atmosphere in the Jacobin club.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbdEDwAAQBAJ&q=5+janvier+1794+Augustin+H%C3%A9bert&pg=PT253|title=Camille et Lucile Desmoulins: Un rêve de république|first=Hervé|last=Leuwers|date=24 January 2018|publisher=Fayard|via=Google Books|isbn=9782213689463}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4LR7DwAAQBAJ&q=5+janvier+1794+Augustin+H%C3%A9bert&pg=PT39|title=Hébert: Le Père Duchesne, chef des Sans-Culottes|first=Louis|last=Jacob|date=1 January 1960|publisher=Gallimard (réédition numérique FeniXX)|via=Google Books|isbn=9782072808562}}</ref> By now the revolutionaries feared one another.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y9cWBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA484|title=Marisa Linton (2015) Terror and Politics, p. 480. In: The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution|first=David|last=Andress|date=22 January 2015|publisher=OUP Oxford|via=Google Books|isbn=9780191009914}}</ref> Augustin went to live with Ricord and his wife.<ref name="Matrat" />{{rp|170–171}} Maximilien returned to the Duplays' house in February 1794, being sick. 

At the end of January Robespierre was dispatched once again as a [[representant en mission]], now to the [[Army of Italy (France)|Army of Italy]] in [[Haute-Saône]]. This time he took with him his mistress, La Saudraye, the creole wife of a literary man.<ref name="Thompson" />{{rp|484}} She accompanied him to the local Popular Society in [[Besançon]], where members reacted indignantly to the active role she took in debates, and to the fact that Robespierre listened to and thought highly of her opinions on politics.<ref name="Linton">{{cite book |first=Marisa |last=Linton |title=Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2013 |isbn=9780199576302}}</ref>{{rp|239}} He also used his influence while with the Army of Italy to advance Napoleon's career.<ref name="Chandler">{{cite book |first=David |last=Chandler |author-link=David G. Chandler |title=Napoleon |series=The Great Commanders |year=1973 |isbn=9780297765691}}</ref>{{rp|21}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dwyer |first=Philip |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tHDJYfc7K6oC |title=Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769–1799 |date=1 January 2008 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300148206 |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|136}} On his return to Paris he served as a secretary to the convention.<ref name="Assemblee" />