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From early 1793 to the summer of 1794, the young French Republic was subject to a reign of institutionalized terror. This period is recreated here by Graeme Fife, who uses contemporary documents, eye-witness accounts and reports to show the atmosphere of fear and suspicion that gripped the nation.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth. Voltaire
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For my mother (obit. 1997) and father for their incomparable gifts to me This book is also dedicated to the radient memory of Mary Lynch 1947-2003
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Prologue: At 11 on the morning of Thursday, 11 July 1793 a coach rumbled over the cobblestones of the place des Victoires in Paris and drew to a halt in the courtyard of the booking agent's office.
Citas
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
It was the man with no life of his own, who devoted his waking hours to a sublime nonsense: that by detroying so much real life it was possible to remake an imagined life and that in striving to forge a republic of love, harmony, liberty and happiness, he and those who seconded him brought into being such a monstrous, repulsive travesty of it.
From early 1793 to the summer of 1794, the young French Republic was subject to a reign of institutionalized terror. This period is recreated here by Graeme Fife, who uses contemporary documents, eye-witness accounts and reports to show the atmosphere of fear and suspicion that gripped the nation.
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