Paris in the Terror: June 1793-July 1794Lippincott, 1964 - 415 pages French Revolutionary history told through the lives of some of its most influential personages, beginning with Charlotte Corday, assassin of Jean-Paul Marat. Mme. Manon Roland, Georges-Jaques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, they all met violent deaths in a terror which dominated Paris and which the three, with Marat and a few others, largely engineered. |
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