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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123434795 Title: Fatal purity : Robespierre and the French Revolution Author: Ruth Scurr Publisher: New York : H. Holt, 2007, ©2006. ISBN/ISSN: 0805082611 9780805082616 0805079874 9780805079876 OCLC:123434795

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Fatal purity : Robespierre and the French Revolution

Author:	Ruth Scurr
Publisher:	New York : H. Holt, 2007, ©2006.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : English : 1st Owl books edView all editions and formats
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.
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Subjects	Robespierre, Maximilien, -- 1758-1794. Revolutionaries -- France -- Biography. France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Biography History Biographies
Named Person:	Maximilien Robespierre; Maximilien Robespierre; Maximilien Robespierre
Material Type:	Biography
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Ruth Scurr Find more information about:
ISBN:	0805082611 9780805082616 0805079874 9780805079876
OCLC Number:	123434795
Notes:	"An Owl book."
Description:	xvii, 408 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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.
Responsibility:	Ruth Scurr.

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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.

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