French Terror

In December 1795, on the midnight stroke of her seventeenth birthday, Marie-Thérèse, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris’s notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents’ brutal execution during the Terror, she had been unaware of...

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? 

The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, recounting and assessing their tumultuous struggles in Paris and their repressive missions in the provinces. 

The French Revolution did not begin with the guillotine. It began with debt, hunger, privilege, failed reform, political fear, and a monarchy that could no longer command belief. In The French Revolution: Power, Terror, and the Fall of the Monarchy, Gordon J. MacKenzie places one of history’s most explosive upheavals on trial. Using the structure of a courtroom case, the book examines the Old Regime, Louis XVI, the Estates-General, the National Assembly, Paris and the crowd, the Church, Varennes, war, the fall of the monarchy, the king’s execution, the Terror, Robespierre, and the rise ...

THE REIGN OF TERROR is a gripping account of the French Revolution’s darkest turn: the moment liberty, virtue, fear, and political violence came together beneath the shadow of the guillotine. The French Revolution began with extraordinary hopes. It challenged monarchy, privilege, feudal rights, aristocratic power, and the old political order. It proclaimed citizenship, equality before the law, national sovereignty, and the rights of man. Yet within a few years, the same revolution was creating tribunals, policing speech, hunting enemies, purging factions, and sending men and women to ...

Nine-year-old Oscar Rosenfeld chases his runaway kitten, delighted to be outdoors after months of being cooped up in a small Viennese apartment. His parents and sister Miriam race after him in alarm. He immediately runs into two policemen who catch hold of him. But they have no intention of returning him safely to his family. Their faces contort in disgust and rage. For Oscar has Down’s Syndrome and as such is targeted by the Nazis for extermination. Oscar’s parents fight to save him, their father is killed and their mother is beaten to the ground. Her last words to Miriam are to take ...

Evil never truly dies. It waits. And now it wants Landry back. After vanquishing the coven that cursed the bayou, famous paranormal investigator Landry Drake and Cate Adams try to reclaim a sense of peace aboard a riverboat cruise up the Mississippi. But the calm is short-lived. When a mysterious carnival troupe boards the ship, led by a sinister figure known only as the Hypnotist, the illusion of safety vanishes. Landry is lured away, then taken—delivered into the hands of a demon and his old nemesis, the banished witch Charity Device. In the French Quarter, amidst a twisted realm of ...

Harry Sandwith, a Westminster boy, becomes a resident at the chateau of a French marquis. After various adventures he accompanies the family to Paris at the height of the French Revolution. Imprisonment and death reduce their number, and Harry finds himself beset by perils with the three young daughters of the house in his charge. After narrow escapes they reach Nantes. There the girls are condemned to death in the coffin ships, but are saved by the unfailing courage of their young protector.

Experience the gripping political upheaval of a bloody revolution that shattered a monarchy and birthed modern politics. Perfect for your daily commute or a session of deep, focused learning, this immersive historical narrative transports you from the opulent halls of the Old Regime to the...

The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, ushered in the French Revolution. Within four years, the king was executed and a revolutionary tribunal was established to judge "enemies of the people." The property of nobles was seized and "enemies" tried and sent to the guillotine. Harry Sandwith, a companion of a French family, wins their confidence and becomes the protector of the three daughters. After the girls are condemned to death in the coffin-ships, Harry saves the girls and the gets them safely to England.

A rich and sweeping novel of courage, duty, sacrifice, and love set during the French Revolution from New York Times bestselling author Allison Pataki and her brother Owen Pataki Three years after the storming of the Bastille, the streets of Paris are roiling with revolution. The citizens of...

Marie Antoinette has been tried for centuries: in pamphlets, caricatures, gossip, and myth. This is her life — and the autopsy of the reputation that consumed it. Sent from Vienna to Versailles at fourteen, Marie Antoinette became the most visible woman in France just as a nation began to fracture under debt, inequality, and hunger. As public anger rose, her clothes, friendships, foreign birth, and even her motherhood were turned into evidence of corruption. Long before the guillotine, she was executed in story — reduced to a symbol that made complex failures feel like the fault of one ...

1793. France tears itself apart. The Revolution has devoured its king and now turns its fury inward. In Paris, the guillotine works day and night as the Committee of Public Safety purges enemies real and imagined. In the Vendée, peasants rise in rebellion, rallying to the white flag of the Bourbons and the Catholic faith the Republic has condemned. Between these forces, France drowns in blood. Three men will determine the fate of thousands. Marquis de Lantenac is the royalist general whose tactical brilliance and aristocratic ruthlessness make him the Revolution's most dangerous enemy. He ...

A masterful biographer with a gift for capturing flawed heroes in all their vitality and self-delusion, Andrew Roberts invites us into the lives, loves, victories and crushing defeats of Napoleon's most elite warriors. In the midst of the age of revolution, as Europe’s monarchs combined forces...

Ils disent qu’on ne peut pas fuir son passé, et maintenant qu’elle a atteint l’autre bout de la galaxie, Sparks se demande s’ils ont raison… Vivant sur une planète lointaine avec une population transitoire depuis un an, fréquentant les bars miteux des spatioports, côtoyant pirates, chasseurs de primes et criminels, elle est devenue une ombre parmi d’autres. Mais elle n’est pas née pour survivre en marge de la société. Pas avec ses pouvoirs. Alors, quand un inconnu lui fait une offre alléchante… Une aventure qu’elle désespérait de vivre… Elle se demande si le ...

France, 1793. The Revolution has devoured its own children, and the guillotine's blade falls daily in the Place de la Révolution. The nation tears itself apart: the Whites, fighting to restore the monarchy and the old order; the Blues, defending the Republic with fanatical zeal. Between them, no neutrality is possible. Every man must choose—and the wrong choice means death. Young men who were friends now face each other across battle lines. Families fracture as fathers and sons take opposing sides. In the chaos of civil war, where the Vendée rises in royalist rebellion and Paris drowns ...

"Simply Magnificent!" – Stew Ross, author of Where Did They Put the Guillotine? France 1794. Zoé Ariane Donet was in love with love until she met the young commander of the royalist army fighting the revolutionaries tearing apart France. When the dashing young general is killed, she joins the royalist cause, rescuing émigrés fleeing Robespierre’s Reign of Terror. One man watches over her: Frederick West, the brother of an English earl, who has known Zoé since she was a precocious ten-year-old child. At sixteen, she promised great beauty, the flower of French womanhood about to bloom...

In October 1793, the French Revolution put a queen in the dock. Marie Antoinette, once the most powerful woman in France, stood before the Revolutionary Tribunal accused of treason, conspiracy, and corruption. Her trial lasted just two days. The verdict was inevitable. The execution followed within hours. But was this justice — or theatre? In Marie Antoinette on Trial, bestselling historian Gordon J. MacKenzie reconstructs the courtroom drama that defined the Terror. Drawing on contemporary accounts and modern scholarship, this book examines: • The political climate that made conviction...

France, 1793. The Revolution has devoured its own children, and the guillotine's blade falls daily in the Place de la Révolution. The nation tears itself apart: the Whites, fighting to restore the monarchy and the old order; the Blues, defending the Republic with fanatical zeal. Between them, no neutrality is possible. Every man must choose—and the wrong choice means death. Young men who were friends now face each other across battle lines. Families fracture as fathers and sons take opposing sides. In the chaos of civil war, where the Vendée rises in royalist rebellion and Paris drowns ...

France, 1793. The Revolution has devoured its own children, and the guillotine's blade falls daily in the Place de la Révolution. The nation tears itself apart: the Whites, fighting to restore the monarchy and the old order; the Blues, defending the Republic with fanatical zeal. Between them, no neutrality is possible. Every man must choose—and the wrong choice means death. Young men who were friends now face each other across battle lines. Families fracture as fathers and sons take opposing sides. In the chaos of civil war, where the Vendée rises in royalist rebellion and Paris drowns ...