Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

Ruth Scurr

432 pages first pub 2006 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.--Hilary Mantel, London Review of BooksSince his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Rob...

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