Colin Jones CBE is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at Queen Mary University of London. He has published widely on French history, particularly on the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, and the history of medicine. His many books include The Medical World of Early Modern France (with Lawrence Brockliss, 1997), The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2002), Paris: Biography of a City (2004), The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth-Century Paris (2014), and Versailles (2018). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Past President, Royal Historical Society.

• INTRODUCTION: THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE UP CLOSE PRELUDE: AROUND MIDNIGHT PART 1: ELEMENTS OF CONSPIRACY (Midnight to 05.00 a.m.) PART 2: SETTINGS FOR A DRAMA (5.00 a.m. to Midday) PART 3: A PARLIAMENTARY COUP (Midday to 5.00 p.m.) PART 4: A PARISIAN JOURNÉE (5.00 p.m. to Midnight) PART 5: AT MIDNIGHT, AROUND MIDNIGHT, AFTER MIDNIGHT AFTERWORD: 9 THERMIDOR FROM AFAR NOTES LIST OF CHARACTERS NOTE ON SOURCES BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PRINTED SOURCES INDEX

Vital, incisive, revelatory, The Fall of Robespierre offers a crisis anatomised, 'by the map and by the clock.' Its close-focus intensity makes us question everything we thought we knew about the bloody events of Thermidor Year II. It takes us to the place, to the instant, to the heartbeat of revolution in the making.