Fatal Purity Robespierre and the French Revolution

By:

Scurr, Ruth

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Metropolitan Books 2006Description: xvii, 408 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9780099458982

Subject(s):

Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794

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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