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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
Author: Timothy Tackett
Narrator: Michael Page
Unabridged: 15 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Published: 06/23/2020
Category: History - Europe - France
Synopsis
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?