| Description |
436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-421) and index. |
| Contents |
Rebellion -- Division -- The sword of justice -- A republic, one and indivisible -- Revolt -- Destroy the Vendée -- Retribution -- The national swimming baths -- The constitution of revolutionary government -- Indulgence -- The infernal columns -- The need for rigour -- The titan of the revolution -- The revolution iced over -- Blood and judgement -- The supreme being -- The Red Mass -- The tigers are quarrelling -- Thermidor. |
| Summary |
An exhaustively researched, character-driven chronicle of revolutionary terror, its victims, and the young men--energetic, idealistic and sincere--who turned the French Republic into a slaughterhouse. 1792 found the newborn Republic threatened from all sides: the British blockaded the coasts, Continental armies poured over the frontiers, and the provinces verged on open revolt. Paranoia simmering in the capital, the Revolution slipped under control of a powerful clique and its fanatical political organization, the Jacobin Club. For two years, this faction, obsessed with patriotism and purity--and self-appointed to define both--inflicted on their countrymen a reign of terror unsurpassed until Stalin's Russia.--From publisher description. |
| Subject |
France -- History -- Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.
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Political violence -- France.
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| ISBN |
9780312352240 |
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0312352247 |
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