ABSTRACT
The five years following Robespierre’s fall have long been the ignored middle child of the era, trapped between the revolutionary drama that preceded them and the Napoleonic era that followed. It is an era that the classic historians paid less attention to. Michelet and Jaurès both ended their accounts with Robespierre’s execution and the ensuing celebrations that broke out across Paris. For all of Michelet’s disdain for Robespierre, he had little enthusiasm for the reappearance of wealth during the following months. “Let us turn our eyes away,” he wrote.1
