Terror and Its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France by Caroline Weber
Terror and Its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France

Caroline Weber

Terror and Its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France

Caroline Weber

320 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

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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...

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