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Dr Ruth Scurr (born 1971, London) is a British writer, historian and literary critic. She is a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. She was educated at St Bernard's Convent, Slough; Oxford University, Cambridge University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. She won a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2000.

Her first book, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (Chatto & Windus, 2006; Metropolitan Books, 2006) won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize (2006), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize (2006), long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize (2007) and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times in 2009. It has been translated into five languages.

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	Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13) by Émile Zola, Philip Bannister (Illustrator), Ruth Scurr (Introduction) 4.20 avg rating — 42,368 ratings — published 1885 — 1537 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution 3.91 avg rating — 1,375 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lives of Eminent Men by John Aubrey, Ruth Scurr (Foreword) 3.88 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 1813 — 143 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows 3.71 avg rating — 270 ratings — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Aubrey: My Own Life 4.03 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief 3.59 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1843 — 111 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of the Life of Monsieur de Voltaire by Voltaire, Ruth Scurr (Foreword), Andrew Brown (Translator) 3.61 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1759 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carlyle's The French Revolution 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“am inflexible in relation to oppressors because I am compassionate toward the oppressed; I do not recognize the humanity that”
― Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

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“Among the crowd at the Tuileries on 10 August was an unemployed army captain who watched with horror as the Swiss Guards were murdered and burned. “If he had mounted his horse,” the young Napoleon Bonaparte wrote of Louis XVI, “victory would have remained with him.”
― Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

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“The judicial system, like so much else in old regime France, was extremely intricate and confusing.”
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