Great Spectacle Wearers From History In which we consider Robespierre’s eyesight Published at 9:13 am on January 29th, 2009 Filed under: In With The Old. Keyword noise: depiction, eyesight, fashion, Fatal Purity, French Revolution, George Galloway, glasses, history, Robespierre, Ruth Scurr, sight, spectacles, Tommy Sheridan, vanity, vision.