The Reign of Terror, ... Danton also co-edited a newspaper that criticized the Terror, the Convention and Robespierre. French Jacobin politician Georges Danton (1759 - 1794) ...

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By the 1980s, "terrorism" was being applied to all manner of political violence. There was a flap over the word in 1989 when New York Times editor A. M. Rosenthal attacked Christopher Hitchens for ...

A Constantinople correspondent writes to us as follows with reference to a remarkable centenarian who had been a friend of Robespierre: "Constantinople has just lost its oldest inhabitant in the ...

Robespierre, a powerful figure in the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked by him for the guillotine and a ...

But the Reign of Terror, which began a few years after the 1789 revolution, was itself abusive, characterized by his Committee of Public Safety's efforts purge France of perceived enemies of the ...

They kept their heads in the Reign of Terror, then embraced hedonism A subculture of young French aristocrats approached life -- and art -- with a perverse fervor ...

Napoleon and his police chief, Joseph Fouché, throttled down the Reign of Terror’s bloody excesses, but their methods of gathering information and imposing order traveled across Europe with the ...

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It’s September 1793 and a reign of terror was the order of the day in France. Laws were passed to arrest political enemies, old and new. The definition of ...