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

By: Publication details: New York : Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2007.Description: xvii, 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780805082616 : PAP
  • 0805082611 : PAP
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 944.04092
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 -- Coda.
Summary: 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.

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.