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Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful di

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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
9780674736559, 9780674425187, 9780674425170, 0674736559

The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning

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This classic work details what happened in France during the year 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Lefebvr

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The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committe

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Thomas Carlyle's difficult and obscure prose - the bane of every reader who has attempted to come to terms with his

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The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committe

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Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural

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From the fall of the Bastille to the rise of Napoleon, Paris was the stage for most of the greatest crises of the French

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The author disclaims any other intention than that of reconstructing the main outlines of the four acts into which he ar

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