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037			_bHenry Holt & Co, C/O Mps 175 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, USA, 10010 _nSAN 631-5011
040			_aNjBwBT _cNjBwBT
082			_a944.04092
100	1		_aScurr, Ruth, _eauthor. _9951
245	1	0	_aFatal purity : _bRobespierre and the French Revolution / _cRuth Scurr.
260			_aNew York : _bHenry Holt and Company, LLC, _c2007.
300			_axvii, 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 379-391) and index.
505	0	0	_tI: Before the revolution (1758-1788) -- _tChild of Arras -- _tThe lawyer-poet back home -- _tII: The revolution begins (1788-1789) -- _tStanding for election in Arras -- _tRepresenting the nation at Versailles -- _tIII: Reconstituting France (1789-1791) -- _tThe national assembly in Paris -- _tThe Constitution -- _tIV: The Constitution fails (1791-1792) -- _tWar -- _tThe king's trial -- _tV: The terror (1793-1794) -- _tThe pact with violence -- _tRobespierre's red summer -- _tCoda.
520			_aA 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.
600	1	0	_aRobespierre, Maximilien, _d1758-1794. _9952
650		0	_aRevolutionaries _zFrance _vBiography. _9953
650		0	_aPolitics and government _9626
651		0	_aFrance _xHistory _yRevolution, 1789-1799. _9954
651		0	_aFrance _xHistory _yReign of Terror, 1793-1794. _9955
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft. _9253
655		4	_aHistory. _9400
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