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Paris in the Terror

Named one of the "books of the century" by the University of California, Berkeley, Paris in the Terror tells the story of the Reign of Terror in terms of the chief performers in that particularly bloody phase of the French Revolution: Marat... Charlotte Corday...Danton...Mme Roland...Robespierre...Camille Desmoulins...Fouche.

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The murder of Marat: July 1793

The trail of Danton: April 1794

The end of Robespierre: July 1794

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Audience
adult
Length
long · 415 pages

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