Fatal Purity Robespierre and the French Revolution
Scurr, Ruth.
Fatal Purity Robespierre and the French Revolution - New York Metropolitan Books 2006 - xvii, 408 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-391) and index.
Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain for historians. Was he a bloodthirsty charlatan or the only true defender of revolutionary ideals? The first modern dictator or the earliest democrat? Was his extreme moralism a heroic virtue or a ruinous flaw?
9780099458982
Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794.
944.040SCU
Fatal Purity Robespierre and the French Revolution - New York Metropolitan Books 2006 - xvii, 408 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-391) and index.
Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain for historians. Was he a bloodthirsty charlatan or the only true defender of revolutionary ideals? The first modern dictator or the earliest democrat? Was his extreme moralism a heroic virtue or a ruinous flaw?
9780099458982
Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794.
944.040SCU