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Publication date: 12th February 2010 by Norman Hampson

The Terror in the French Revolution

This pamphlet explains what really happened, and why. It shows how the apparent achievements of the first two years of the Revolution produced deadlock, which politicians tried to break by war; how war produced the instruments of the Terror and drove France's deputies into accepting more radical measures that they would have likes; and how the politicians broke into factions under the strain of events.


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