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A Place of Greater Safety

by Hilary Mantel · 1992

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It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden—and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly, erratic and untrustworthy, bisexual and beautiful, Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another, her daughter. In the swells of revolution, they each taste the addictive delights of power, and the price that must be paid for it.

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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thiswar and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of thisBritish mysteryBritish mysteryMore like thisLess of thisLGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of this
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revolutionrevolutionMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of this
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French RevolutionFrench RevolutionMore like thisLess of thisFranceFranceMore like thisLess of thisEuropeEuropeMore like thisLess of thisParisParisMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
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historyhistoryMore like thisLess of thisbiographybiographyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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epic · 749 pages

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