Robespierre and the French Revolution (Classic Reprint)

This is the last volume in a series of three books on the three most distinguished and representative men in each of the three distinctive periods of the French Revolution. The first volume is on Mirabeau, who dominated the Revolution from the meeting of the States-G eneral in May, 1789, until his death in A pril, 1791, and whose purpose was to save the monarchy but to restrict its arbitrary power by constitutional limitations. The second volume is on Danton, who became, after the death of Mirabeau, the representative of the radical republican sentiment and was the controlling figure during the period that witnessed the overthrow of the monarchy, the establishment of the republic and the execution of the king. This, the third volume, is on Robespierre, the ruling spirit during the Reign of Terror, from the expulsion of the Girondins until his execution in July,
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