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Twelve who ruled : the year of the terror in the French Revolution / by R. R. Palmer.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks DC177 .P35 1970
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palmer, R. R. (Robert Roswell), 1909-2002.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- France. Convention nationale. Comité de salut public.
- France.
- France--History--Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.
- History.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 417 pages : portraits, map. ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [1970]
- Summary:
- This modern classic is being reissued in recognition of the bicentennial of the French Revolution.
- From a review of an earlier edition: "This is wholly an admirable book: it is based upon all the most recent researches and itself makes some original contributions to scholarship; it is written in a bright popular style and deserves as warm a welcome from the general reader as from the historian."--A.J.P. Taylor, "Manchester Guardian"
- Notes:
- Reprint, with new pref. of the 1941 ed.
- "Notes and references": pages [397]-403.
- ISBN:
- 0691051194
- 0691007616
- OCLC:
- 376712
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