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[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

I'm supposed to be looking forward to 'Christmas, what I want for' at the moment. I've been looking around for books about The French Revolution, and I was wondering if anyone has opinions on the following:

The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr

Saint Just by Norman Hampson

Vive la Revolution by Mark Steel

Thanks!

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[citoyenne.livejournal.com]

About christmas gift lists: I randomly walked into one of my favourite bookshops and came over a book called "Liberty - The Lives And Times Of Six Women In Revolutionary France" (http://www.harpercollins.com.au/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0007241690), there are two chapters or more about Madame Roland in it and off course it had to end up at the top of my gift list this year. Have anyone read or heard of it?

[maleficent.livejournal.com]

I've just started reading it. I bought it after going to a talk by Lucy Moore & Ruth Scurr (Fatal Purity) over the summer. They were both very good & I'm really enjoying Liberty. I'm not very far in but so far it's been very entertaining without simplifying the events and issues. I rather suspect that Lucy Moore is a fantastic writer.

[citoyenne.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad to hear this! I got the book for my birthday and I've just looked a little bit through it. I adore the beginning though, the way the women are introduced.