Robespierre

Autorentext
John Hardman formerely of the University of Edinburgh has written Louis XVI (Yale 1993) and French Politics (Longman 1995).

Klappentext
Get under the surface of the most powerful and feared leader of the French Revolution Offers brilliantly original analysis. Explains how Robespieree came by his extraordinary power. Explores the power and development of a police state. A provincial lawyer from Arras, Robespierre (1758-94) dominated France at the height of the Revolution, the event which more than any other, shaped modern history. Robespierre had an enigmatic and contradictory personality, reclusive, cerebral and austere, yet at the same time both neurotic and theatrical with a solitary lifestyle, hidden away even at the height of his fame in modest lodgings with a family he trusted. Others have written extensively by concentrating on analyzing Robespierre's set-piece speeches to parliament and the Jacobian club, but John Hardman gets behind the polished but chilly surface of the public persona by examining Robespierre at his desk rather that at the rostrum. Concentrating on Robespierre's administration rather than his rhetoric, "Robespierre" offers not only a brilliant original analysis of its formidable protagonist, but also a dramatic vantage point from which to survey the main phase of the Revolution itself, from the fall of the ancien regeime to the end of the Terror. As a title in the very popular "Profiles in Power" series, this is not a biography, though inevitably it contains much biographical material, it instead analyzes the major features, achievements and failures of Robespierre's career. John Hardman formerely of the University of Edinburgh has written" Louis XVI" (Yale 1993) and" French Politics" (Longman 1995).

Zusammenfassung
Robespierre was one of the most powerful and the most feared leaders of the French Revolution. John Hardman describes the career of this ruthless political manipulator, and in the process explores the dynamics of the French revolutionary movement and the ferocious and self-destructive rivalries of its leadership.This original book gets behind the polished but chilly surface of the public persona to reveal how Robespierre came by his extraordinary power and how he used it.

Inhalt
Figure and Maps Preface PART ONE: OPPOSITION Chapter 1 The First Thirty Years Chapter 2 Robespierre in the Constituent Assembly May 1789-Septem ber 1791 Chapter 3 Out of Parliament, Septem ber 1791-September 1792 Chapter 4 The Nature of Power: The Institutions of the First Republic, 1792-1794 Chapter 5 Unfinished Business, 20 Septem ber 1792-2 June 1793 Chapter 6 From Robespierre's Entry to the CSP to the Death of Dan ton, July 1793-April 1794 Chapter 7 The Formation of Robespierre's Faction, July 1793-April 1794 Chapter 8 The Daily Exercise of Power I: Robespierre and Payan Chapter 9 The Daily Exercise of Power II: Robespierre, H erm an and the Police Bureau Chapter 10 Resistance, 22 P rairial/10 Ju n e -7 T herm idor/25 July Chapter 11 The Fall of Robespierre Epilogue Robespierre's legacy Bibliography Chronology Maps Index

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