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Scurr, Ruth Fatal Purity Robespierre and the French Revolution
Metropolitan Books 2006 0805079874 / 9780805079876 First Edition First Printing Hardcover As New in As New dust jacket
2006 stated first edition, first printing partial cloth hardcover and dust jacket. Book is unread. Tiny bit of shelfwear at top edge of pages. Protective mylar cover. 1.5 x 9.3 x 6.3 Inches 432 pages Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain for historians, at once the most notorious leader of the French Revolution and the least comprehensible. Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Ruth Scurr follows the trajectory of Robespierres paradoxical life, from his unprepossessing beginnings as a provincial lawyer opposed to repressive authority and the death penalty, to his meteoric rise in Paris politics as a devastatingly efficient revolutionary leader, righteous and paranoid in equal measure.
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