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Ooh what do we call today? Camille-Stood-on-a-Table-Day? Happy Camille-Stood-on-a-Table-Day everyone! 

When Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette made their solemn entry into Paris after their coronation, [Robespierre and his] professors had gathered outside Louis-le-Grand in the Rue Saint Jacques, and waited for the royal cortege as it left Notre Dame to proceed towards the church of Saint Genevieve. It was a rainy day.

[Robespierre] is as capable of being a party leader as of catching a hold of the moon. He is absent-minded, like a thinker, cold and formal, like a lawyer, but gentle as a lamb, and sombre as Young. For the rest, you need only see him face to face to be sure that nature never gave such attractive features to any but a noble mind.

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I have this if it helps anyone

It’s just kind of small