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On July 27, 1793, Robespierre was elected to the Committee of Public Safety, which was formed in April to protect France against its enemies, foreign and domestic, and to oversee the government. Under his leadership, the committee came to exercise virtual dictatorial control over the French government.
Peasants, low class; he didn't reform anything for them because they were used to the nobility.
It could be argued that Desiderius Erasmus was the best known of all Christian humanists since he was an early leader of the movement and wrote in a very clear style that people identified with.
True the United States wished to maintain a position of confinement from world affairs in both the first World war and the second.