Showing Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr
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Fatal Purity Robespierre was only thirty-six when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Robespierre and the Revolution were inseparable: a single inflexible tyrant. But what turned a shy young lawyer into the living embodiment of the Terror at its most violent? Full description
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