Fatal purity
Robespierre and the French Revolution
Book - 2007
Against the ... backdrop of the French Revolution, [this book] follows the trajectory of Robespierre's paradoxical life, from his modest beginnings as a provincial lawyer to his emergence as a devastatingly efficient revolutionary leader. [It] explores his reformist zeal, his role in the fall of the monarchy, his passionate attempt to design a modern republic, [and his] effort to found a perfect religion. And [it] follows him into the depths of the Terror, as [Robespierre] makes summary execution the order of the day, himself falling victim to the violence at the age of thirty-six. -Back cover.
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-391) and index. | ||
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