Robespierre Book

I got a goddamn headache everytime I picked up this ponderous Pantagruel of a book. Seriously, it's that good. Furet (or as Maurice called him, "Furry") is the only real authority on the period of the French Revolution (yes, he thinks it only ends in the Third Republic). Henri Ceinturer, author of "La Révolution odorante: flatulence et les francs-maçons au cours du premier empire" once challenged Furet's mastery of the subject...in public even! Furet repeatedly punched Ceinturer in the throat with a paperback copy of Blanc's "Pages de l'histoire de la révolution de 1848" in response.