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Genre/Form: | Biography History |
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Named Person: | Maximilien Robespierre; Maximilien Robespierre; Maximilien Robespierre |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ruth Scurr |
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. |
Abstract:
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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by jburch1992 updated 2015-02-24