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The Reign of Terror in the French Revolution
A look at "The Blood-Chilling Executions and Savage Mob Violence That Claimed 40,000 Lives."
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1962
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June 10, 2018
1st Read: December 11, 1996 - December 31, 1996
: January 1, 1997 - January 5, 1997 (** Rating)
I'd read this book and found it remotely interesting at times. There were flashbacks to grade seven Social Studies class often, which had me asking questions to myself. Such as, "How disgustingly rotten was the smell in the city of Paris after beheading over 40,000 men & women?" That had to be quite obviously as rank as a dead animal!
Pretty certain I won't be keeping this book as the final four pages are now missing. The remaining pages are a cigarette smoke yellow after fifty-three years of suffocation. On top of this, the pages are not even staying in the books binding. It has had a hard life.
2nd/Final Read: August 8, 2017 - August 12, 2017 (*** Rating)
I really enjoyed reading this book again after nearly twenty-one years. The content is brutal, horrific and filled with crimes that stained Paris streets with blood down to the last layers of permafrost. Some of the torture and abuse many women and priests had to endure before their death was truly fit for a novel of intense fictional horror. It was hard to fathom that a human could do such things to another human being, had made me shudder at the visualizations of them.
I wonder whatever became of Stanton, the Chief Executioner during this time in history!
: January 1, 1997 - January 5, 1997 (** Rating)
I'd read this book and found it remotely interesting at times. There were flashbacks to grade seven Social Studies class often, which had me asking questions to myself. Such as, "How disgustingly rotten was the smell in the city of Paris after beheading over 40,000 men & women?" That had to be quite obviously as rank as a dead animal!
Pretty certain I won't be keeping this book as the final four pages are now missing. The remaining pages are a cigarette smoke yellow after fifty-three years of suffocation. On top of this, the pages are not even staying in the books binding. It has had a hard life.
2nd/Final Read: August 8, 2017 - August 12, 2017 (*** Rating)
I really enjoyed reading this book again after nearly twenty-one years. The content is brutal, horrific and filled with crimes that stained Paris streets with blood down to the last layers of permafrost. Some of the torture and abuse many women and priests had to endure before their death was truly fit for a novel of intense fictional horror. It was hard to fathom that a human could do such things to another human being, had made me shudder at the visualizations of them.
I wonder whatever became of Stanton, the Chief Executioner during this time in history!
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