Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

Ruth Scurr

448 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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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...

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