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Author Scurr, Ruth.

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

Imprint New York : Metropolitan Books, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  944.041 R549Bs 2006    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvii, 408 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-391) and index.
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.
Subject Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794.
Revolutionaries -- France -- Biography.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
France -- History -- Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.
ISBN 0805079874
9780805079876
Standard No. YDXCP 2246943
NZ1 10571797
AU@ 000040021997

 
    
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