TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scurr,Ruth
TI  - Fatal purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution 
SN  - 9780805082616 : PAP
U1  - 944.04092 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Henry Holt and Company, LLC
KW  - Robespierre, Maximilien,
KW  - Revolutionaries
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1789-1799
KW  - Reign of Terror, 1793-1794
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -