Ruth Scurr (ed.) Carlyle’s The French Revolution (London and New York: Continuum, 2010) and Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (London: Vintage, 2006) The boy kneels in ...

Biography: Robespierre is one of those radical political figures of history whose name typically conjures up images of Cromwell, Hitler and Mao fused together. If Maximilien Robespierre saw himself as ...

ROBESPIERRE, one of the great typical, symbolic figures of history, by reason of his very typicalness has come to have in the mind of the less considerate reader a kind of false unity and simplicity ...

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr 304pp, Chatto & Windus, £20 As Maximilien Robespierre was taken through the streets of Paris to the guillotine on the morning of July ...

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr Chatto & Windus £20, pp304 Before the revolution, only the noblest villains were beheaded in France. Decapitation was considered too ...

Revolutionary France in 1794 was a crucible, combining all the elements that would embody Western politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. All eyes were on Paris. Depending on who was ...

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ROBESPIERRE AND THE FOURTH ESTATE—Ralph Korngold—Moderr Age ($3.75). The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars were Act I of a European melodrama of which the Russian and German Revolutions and ...