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Fatal Purity Robespierre and the French Revolution

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Metropolitan Books 2006Description: xvii, 408 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780099458982
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 944.040SCU
Summary: 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?
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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?

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