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Author Scurr, Ruth.

Title Fatal purity : Robespierre and the French Revolution / Ruth Scurr.

Publication Info. New York : Metropolitan Books, 2006.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  DC146.R6 S38 2006    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvii, 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-391) and index.
Contents I: Before the revolution (1758-1788) -- Child of Arras -- The lawyer-poet back home -- II: The revolution begins (1788-1789) -- Standing for election in Arras -- Representing the nation at Versailles -- III: Reconstituting France (1789-1791) -- The national assembly in Paris -- The Constitution -- IV: The Constitution fails (1791-1792) -- War -- The king's trial -- V: The terror (1793-1794) -- The pact with violence -- Robespierre's red summer.
Subject Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794.
Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794.
Revolutionaries -- France -- Biography.
Revolutionaries.
France.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
France -- History -- Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0805079874
Standard No. 9780805079876