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Scurr, Ruth,

Fatal purity : Robespierre and the French Revolution / Ruth Scurr. - New York : Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2007. - xvii, 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-391) and index.

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 -- Coda.

A biography of a key figure of the French Revolution captures the paradoxical life of Maximilien Robespierre, from his beginnings as a provincial lawyer, to his rise to power as a revolutionary leader, to his eventual end on the guillotine that had taken the lives of so many during the Terror that he had orchestrated.

ISBN: 9780805082616 : PAP 23.00 0805082611 : PAP 23.00

Source: Henry Holt & Co, C/O Mps 175 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, USA, 10010 SAN 631-5011

LCCN: bl2011010558

Subjects--Personal Names:
Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Revolutionaries--France--Biography.
Politics and government

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
France--History--Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographies.
History.

Dewey Class. No.: 944.04092