Clifford D. Conner is on the faculty of the School of Professional Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he teaches history. He has written biographies of two eighteenth-century Irish revolutionaries, Colonel Despard (2000) and Arthur O'Connor (2009). He is also the author of the acclaimed A People's History of Science (2005) and is on the editorial board of The International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest.

• PrefaceIntroduction - The Phantom and the Historians1. The Early Years2. 1765–1789 – The Physician and the Physicist3. January 1789–June 1791 – From the Estates General to the King’s Flight4. July 1791–September 1792 – From the Champs de Mars Massacre to the September Massacres5. September 1792–July 1793 – From the Convention Elections to the AssassinationConclusion - From the Cult of Marat to the Légende Noire and BeyondNotesIndex

'A fresh, welcome look at one of the most complex and fascinating figures of the French Revolution'

Clifford D. Conner is on the faculty of the School of Professional Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he teaches history. He has written biographies of two eighteenth-century Irish revolutionaries, Colonel Despard (2000) and Arthur O'Connor (2009). He is also the author of the acclaimed A People's History of Science (2005) and is on the editorial board of The International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest.

• PrefaceIntroduction - The Phantom and the Historians1. The Early Years2. 1765–1789 – The Physician and the Physicist3. January 1789–June 1791 – From the Estates General to the King’s Flight4. July 1791–September 1792 – From the Champs de Mars Massacre to the September Massacres5. September 1792–July 1793 – From the Convention Elections to the AssassinationConclusion - From the Cult of Marat to the Légende Noire and BeyondNotesIndex

'A fresh, welcome look at one of the most complex and fascinating figures of the French Revolution'

Clifford D. Conner is on the faculty of the School of Professional Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he teaches history. He has written biographies of two eighteenth-century Irish revolutionaries, Colonel Despard (2000) and Arthur O'Connor (2009). He is also the author of the acclaimed A People's History of Science (2005) and is on the editorial board of The International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest.

• PrefaceIntroduction - The Phantom and the Historians1. The Early Years2. 1765–1789 – The Physician and the Physicist3. January 1789–June 1791 – From the Estates General to the King’s Flight4. July 1791–September 1792 – From the Champs de Mars Massacre to the September Massacres5. September 1792–July 1793 – From the Convention Elections to the AssassinationConclusion - From the Cult of Marat to the Légende Noire and BeyondNotesIndex

'A fresh, welcome look at one of the most complex and fascinating figures of the French Revolution'