quality:correction
Legacy and memory

He is a major figure in the history of France, and a controversial subject, studied by the favorable Jacobin School and the unfavorable neo-liberal school, by "lawyers and prosecutors". François Crouzet collected many interesting details from French historians dealing with Robespierre. In an interview Marcel Gauchet said that Robespierre confused his private opinion and virtue. The sale at Sotheby's in 2011 of selected manuscripts, including speeches, draft newspaper articles, drafts of reports to be read at the Convention, a fragment of the speech of 8 Thermidor and a letter on virtue and happiness, kept by the Le Bas family after the death of Robespierre, sparked mobilization among historians and politicians; Pierre Serna published an article entitled: "We must save Robespierre!" in Le Monde, and the Society of Robespierrist Studies launched a call for subscriptions, while the French Communist Party, the Socialist Party and the Radical Party of the Left alerted the French Ministry of Culture.