Article: Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution.(Book review)

Article: A green revolution; The incorruptibles: Robespierre ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  March 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... MarieIsidore de Robespierre (1758-1794 ... which cementedthe Revolution by the imposition ... this period led to Robespierre's ownexecution ... His description of Robespierre, in TheFrench Revolution (1837), is taken ...

Article: HISTORY: Terror wears a sea-green coat Fatal Purity: ...
The Independent on Sunday;  May 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... out of the colour of Robespierre's favourite coat ... reptilian. And since Robespierre presided over the most ... period of the French Revolution, the idea of him as ... achieve some great goal' Robespierre, as far as one can ... basis in a time of revolution is both virtue and ...

Article: BIOGRAPHY Was Danton really the human face of the French ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 19, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... pp Historians of the French Revolution have long asked themselves: who was the better man, Danton or Robespierre? In the 19th century, Alphonse ... devoted to his country and the Revolution; Robespierre meanwhile was a tyrant. Aulard ...

Article: Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French ...
Contemporary Review;  March 22, 2007 ;     613 words ...Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution. Ruth Scurr. Chatto & ... ISBN 0-701-17600-8. Robespierre (like Lenin, he is always known ... the tragedy that was the French Revolution. (E.B.)

Article: Ending the Terror: The French Revolution after ...
Journal of European Studies;  June 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... coup and starve the people of Paris. Similar fickleness followed the fall of Robespierre, and Bronislaw Baczko discusses the fabrication of the rumour that Robespierre had wanted to marry the daughter of Louis XVI and have himself proclaimed king ...

Article: "A dream of murder": The fall of Robespierre and the ...
Studies in Romanticism;  December 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...ROBESPIERRE. What! did th'assassin ... Southey, The Fall of Robespierre i.ii.6-7 (1794 ... the period of the French Revolution.* Within that study ... immediate impact of the Revolution upon the dramatic imagination ...

Article: Ending the Terror: The French Revolution after ...
History Today;  December 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... full chronological range of the French Revolution continues to exert a powerful attraction ... the onset and the aftermath of the Revolution from a substantially revisionist' perspective ... Tocqueville: how precisely did the Revolution `come out' of the ancien regime ...