The Tribunal of the Terror (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530205622)

Vendor: Susanne Alleyn
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The Tribunal of the Terror

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The Tribunal of the Terror

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Format: Paperback
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In April, 1793, the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris condemned a handful of prisoners to death for crimes against the French Republic-and judges, jury, and spectators wept as sentence was passed.

In July, 1794, the Tribunal sent thirty to fifty people a day to the guillotine.

What, in fifteen months, turned the Tribunal into an instrument of mass murder? What collective madness or terror seized its personnel, some of them callous psychopaths, others decent men trapped in nightmarish circumstances? How could they casually condemn hundreds to death, from peasants to duchesses, from teenagers to senile octogenarians? And how, in the end, could they justify themselves by declaring, in all sincerity, that they had merely done their patriotic duty?

In this book, first published in 1909 and now re-published with additional notes for the 21st-century reader, acclaimed historian G. Lenôtre examines the Revolutionary Tribunal, its beginnings, its personnel, its premises, its most famous trials of revolutionaries and royalty, and finally its downfall as the Terror careened to its bloody conclusion. His extensive archival research strips away layers of myth and presents a factual and fascinating history of a dark and often misunderstood era.

Author: Susanne Alleyn,G. Lenotre
ISBN-10: 153020562X
ISBN-13: 9781530205622
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2016
Pages: 298
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.62d

By Susanne Alleyn
By Susanne Alleyn
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G. Lenôtre was the pen name of Louis Léon Théodore Gosselin (1855-1935), a French historian and playwright. He produced numerous works dealing with aspects of the French Revolution, especially the Terror, constructed from his detailed research into primary documents of the era. His work was recognized and admired by his contemporaries. Gosselin was made an officer of the Légion d'honneur and in 1932 was elected to the Académie française. His historical works, most of which were translated into English, include The Tribunal of the Terror; Paris in the Revolution; The Guillotine and Its Servants; The Last Days of Marie-Antoinette; Romances of the French Revolution; The Flight of Marie-Antoinette; The Dauphin: The Riddle of the Temple; and many more.

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