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Historical person
1758–1794
Maximilien Robespierre was a leading Jacobin politician during the French Revolution and a central figure in the Terror. His fall and execution in July 1794 marked the end of the most radical phase of revolutionary government.
Victor Hugo’s Ninety-Three places Maximilien Robespierre within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and court politics and dynastic power. Michelle Moran’s Madame Tussaud places Maximilien Robespierre within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, court politics and dynastic power, and political ambition and government. Other novels featuring Maximilien Robespierre include Bernard Cornwell’s Fallen Angels and Antonia Fraser’s Marie Antoinette.
Historical context
Series
The Crowning Mercy novels follow the Lazender family through two periods of upheaval in European history. A Crowning Mercy is set amid the religious and political violence of the English Civil War, when a young woman’s inheritance draws her into a contest involving family loyalty, faith and royalist…
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The Scarlet Pimpernel series follows Sir Percy Blakeney and his allies as they use disguises, forged papers and carefully staged deceptions to rescue people endangered by the French Revolution. Most volumes are set between the September Massacres of 1792 and the fall of Robespierre in July 1794, moving…
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Standalone books
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
