A dubious mixture ...

Mix psychiatry and history is probably interesting for the author who is a psychiatrist but frankly desperate for the historian who has spent more than thirty years studying the period ... Maybe would it take cooperation between two kinds to achieve a successful outcome? For the historian, reading this book is also infuriating to hear someone say "Hitler was mad" to explain the Second World War or read a history of the Vendée wars written by a Jesuit! Robespierre was probably a complex character but depending on the circumstances and events that we must try to understand her choices. Thus, opposing the death penalty at the beginning of the revolution he comes to the conclusion that only terror can save the revolution, but the terror coupled with virtue, which changes everything and that is not easy to learn to the outset. this is where a few years of study of the subject make the difference. Legalistic, causing its loss on the evening of 9 Thermidor, he nevertheless eventually join the coup of May 31, 93 but then protects MPs arrested as he can ... When is a man state, will we reason in the same way in a country at peace and when seven armies invaded the country? Anyway, I'm not ready to mingle psychiatry ...