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

Author/creator Scurr, Ruth
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Metropolitan Books, 2006.
Descriptionxvii, 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [379]-391) and index.
LCCN 2005057694
ISBN0805079874
ISBN9780805079876