"For the psychoanalyst Jacques André, from 1789 Robespierre’s public and political life became as one with his libidinal life, of which elements were his sexualization of revolutionary crowds, his unconscious homosexuality and his narcissism" "The Thermidorians, immediately upon his death, liked to hawk pamphlets detailing Robespierre's wild orgies, although in a few months they erred to the opposite extreme and dubbed him absolutely impotent. The thing that is notable, for all their rampant speculation and slander, no contemporary of Robespierre's ever called him a homosexual. This hasn't stopped historians from ignoring contemporary evidence and making reaching speculations, Jean Artarit going so far as to say that Robespierre's misspelling Lantillette as Languillette (baby eel) in an electoral pamphlet indicates that he wanted to cut off his own penis, presumably to make himself more like a woman." dijelovi iz knjige "Integrating Private and Public in the Life of Maximilien R