Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution

by Timothy Tackett

Book Overview

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror?

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674979893
• ISBN13: 9780674979895
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Belknap
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"