Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's ...

Robespierre foretells end of Revolution — Causes of its termination — Hébert — Chaumette and Hébertists — Increased power of Committees of Public Welfare and Public Safety — The struggle for power — ...

After “drawing the veil,” and almost justifying those days by the mouth of Roland [185] as they had justified previously the massacres of La Glacière at Lyons by the mouth of Barbaroux, [186] they now ...

Bruce Levine, Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2020 The name of Thaddeus Stevens is too little known today. Bruce Levine, professor ...

To insult a girl in the style of the French revolutionaries, calling her “a stained bordello bed sheet”—as stage prompter Simon does to one of his conquests—might do the trick. Memorable lines like ...