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Twelve Who Ruled remains one of the strongest accounts of the Terror, not least because Palmer neither romanticises it nor reduces it to a catalogue of horrors. His prose is readable and often remarkably vivid, and he manages to combine serious scholarship…
Read more →April 5th, 1794: Camille Desmoulins went to the Place de la Révolution to die. There was no journal left to write, no crowd to stir, no chance to rewrite the last page. He had already said too much. The Revolution had eaten…
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