Scurr, Ruth, <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-391) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780805082616 : PAP  23.00 0805082611 : PAP  23.00 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Henry Holt & Co, C/O Mps 175 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, USA, 10010  SAN 631-5011 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>bl2011010558 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Revolutionaries--France--Biography.<br/>Politics and government
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.<br/>France--History--Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biographies.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>944.04092