The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792-1794
by Graeme Fife
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Graeme Fife is a full-time writer with several books published in the UK and the USA. He has broadcast on all six BBC Radio networks and has written plays, stories and features for radio and stage, as well as directing and performing. A keen cyclist, he has ridden all the celebrated cols of Tour legend
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- Canonical title
- The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792-1794
- Original publication date
- 2004 (Portrait, imprint of Piatkus Books Ltd, Great Britain) (Portrait, imprint of Piatkus Books Ltd, Great Britain); 2006-11 (First US Edition, St. Martin's Press, New York) (First US Edition, St. Martin's Press, New York)
- People/Characters
- Louis XVI, King of France; Marie Antoinette; Maximilien de Robespierre; Georges Danton; Jean Paul Marat; Jean Nicolas Houchard (show all 120); Jacques de Flesselles; Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay; Charlotte Corday; Pierre-Augustin Hulin; Olympe de Gouges; Jean Sylvain Bailly; Jacques Roux; Louis Antoine de Saint-Just; Jean Baptiste Kléber; Joseph Chalier; Lazare Carnot; Jacques Pierre Brissot; Camille Desmoulins; Georges Auguste Couthon; Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, "Philippe Égalité"; Louis René Quentin de Richebourg, Marquis de Champcenetz; Grace Dalrymple Elliott; Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood; Joseph Fouché; Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois; Stanislas-Marie Maillard; Madame Roland; François Nicolas Léonard Buzot; Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve; Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux; Claude-Alexandre Ysabeau; Arthur Young (agriculturist); François Joseph Westermann; Voltaire "François-Marie Arouet", 1694-1778; Antoine Lavoisier; François-Nicolas Vincent; Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud; Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier; Louis Marie Turreau; Jacques-Alexis Thuriot de la Rosière; Jean-Lambert Tallien; Antoine Joseph Santerre; Charles Henri Sanson; Philippe Jacques Rühl; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778; Jean Antoine Rossignol; Charles-Philippe Ronsin; Jean-Marie Roland; Augustin Robespierre; Honoré Jean Riouffe; Jean Pierre de Batz, Baron de Sainte-Croix; Cécile-Aimée Renault; William Pitt the Younger; Pierre Philippeaux; Jean-Baptiste Carrier; Antoine-François Momoro; Jean-Baptiste Michonis; Henri Admirat; Louis Collenot d'Angremont; Antoine Louis Albitte; Jean-Pierre André Amar; Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac; Paul Barras; Marc Antoine Baudot; Claude Basire; Jacques Claude Beugnot; Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne; Charles-Melchior Arthus, Marquis de Bonchamps; Jean Baptiste Bouchotte; Léonard Bourdon; François Chabot; François Athanase Charette de La Contrie; Pierre Gaspard Chaumette; André Chénier; Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; Pierre-André Coffinhal-Dubail; Jacques-Louis David; Jacques-René Hébert; Anne-Lucile-Philippe Desmoulins; Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé; Charles-François Dumouriez; René-François Dumas; Philippe François Fabre d'Églantine; Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles; Élisabeth Philippine Marie Hélène de France; Françoise-Augustine Duval d'Eprémesnil; Louis-François, comte de Ferrières-Sauvebeuf; Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville; Marie-Pierre Adrien Francastel; Louis Marie Stanislas Fréron; Junius Frey (Moses Dobruška); Armand Gensonné; Jean-Jacques Goullin; Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle; Marie de Grandmaison; Marguerite-Élie Guadet; Joseph-Ignace Guillotin; Antoine Louis; François Hanriot; Nicolas Haxo; Raoul Hesdin; Claude Javogues; Jean Bon Saint-André; Jean-Baptiste Jourdan; Joseph Delaunay; Jean Julien (aka Julien de Toulouse); François Christophe de Kellermann; Pierre Louis Prieur de la Marne; Marie Therese de Savoie, princesse de Lamballe; Marie-Anne Lavoisier; Philippe François Joseph Le Bas; Louis Legendre; Joseph Lequinio; Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot; Robert Lindet; Louis XV, King of France; Louis XIV, 1638-1715; Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray; Napoleon Bonaparte
- Important places
- Paris, Île-de-France, France; Lyon, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; Bordeaux, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Marseille, Bouche-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France (show all 8); Varennes-en-Argonne, Meuse, Grand-Est, France; Versailles, Yvelinees, Île-de-France, France
- Important events
- French Revolution; Storming of the Bastille; Women's March on Versailles; Champ de Mars Massacre; September Massacres; Royal Flight to Varennes (show all 16); French Revolutionary Wars; Battle of Valmy (1792-09-20); Battle of Jemappes; Execution of Louis XVI; Execution of Marie Antoinette; Reign of Terror; War in the Vendée; Thermidorian Reaction; Execution of Robespierre; Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
- Epigraph
- We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth. Voltaire
- Dedication
- 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 - First words
- 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.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)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.
- Publisher's editor
- Dawes, Richard
- Original language
- English UK
Classifications
- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 944.044 — History & geography History of Europe France and Monaco France Revolution 1789-1804 Reign of terror, May 1793-July 1794
- LCC
- DC183 .F55 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania France – Andorra – Monaco History of France Modern, 1515- Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1789-1815
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