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Terror and Its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France
Terror and Its Discontents Suspect Words in Revolutionary France
Author: Caroline Weber
Camille Desmoulins, a journalist writing under the Montagnard regime of 1793-94, remarked that France's government had replaced "the language of democracy" with "the cold poison of fear, which paralyzed thought in the bottom of people's souls, and prevented it from pouring forth at the tribunal, or in writing." How this happened, how the Reign o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780816638871
ISBN-10: 081663887X
Publication Date: 1/2003
Pages: 376
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Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Book Type: Paperback
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