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Robespierre a revolutionary life

McPhee, Peter  more...
   

Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Non Fiction
BIC Subjects: Biography & autobiography: general
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 13/03/2012
Place of Publication: United States



 

RRP: $57.95
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AUSTRALIAN. For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793-94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life with a deep understanding of society and the politics of the French Revolution to arrive at a fresh understanding of the man, his passions, and his tragic shortcomings. Peter McPhee gives special attention to Robespierre's formative years and the development of an iron will in a frail boy conceived outside wedlock and on the margins of polite provincial society.


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