Author: Timothy Tackett
Narrator: Michael Page
Unabridged: 15 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: 06/23/2020
Genre: History - Europe - France
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?