Author: Colin Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198715951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced.