LA CHUTE

The decline and fall of Robespierre – known as “the incorruptible” – A ground-breaking account combining history and suspense.

July 26, 1794. As the tumbrils roll, taking those condemned that day to the guillotine, Paris is all agog: after weeks of absence, Robespierre is going to speak. What will the most feared man in France say? Will he announce the end of the Terror or, on the contrary, proclaim a dictatorship? From the deadly prisons to the painter David's studio, from the Palais Royal gambling houses to behind the scenes at the National Convention, who will triumph? Robespierre, who wants to purify the republic, or his opponents who claim they will save it? Eleonora or Teresa, each in love with a man who, if he loses the battle he is fighting, will take her down with him? Three decisive days when everything becomes denunciation, manipulation, conspiracy. Three days when winning means survival. Three days when the republic will have its blood baptism. Three days that will shake up France's destiny.

A riveting and entirely true story, drawn from indisputable sources, a “historical thriller” that keeps readers on the edge of their seats from start to finish.

Author of detective novels and historical essays, JACQUES RAVENNE and his co-author Éric Giacometti have created two successful series: the investigations of Commissaire Marcas (by Fleuve editions) and the saga Soleil noir (by JC Lattès), translated into twenty languages.