The problem for Robespierre's biographer was best stated by the 19th-century historian John Wilson Croker. "Of no one of whom so much has been written is so little known," Croker boldly asserted, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THERE are very few figures who polarise opinion quite like the French Revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to ...

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 ...

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 ...