503. The French Revolution: Bloodbath in Paris (Part 1)
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503. The French Revolution: Bloodbath in Paris (Part 1) mentions the flight to Varennes by Timothy Tackett, the coming of the terror by Timothy Tackett, Simon Sharma, and William Wordsworth with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
this is now turbocharged by the flight to Varennes.
Tackett has this lovely section on a particular trope, a device, which is the idea of the traitor who wears the mask of patriotism.
Poets of romantic weather forecasting like William Wordsworth continued to describe the revolution as a very cyclonic disturbance.
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“Tackett has a section about Brittany. And he says, Brittany is a perfect example of where all this is heading. The local authorities there say absolutely clearly, quote, there must be no limit to the measures against the enemy's hatred and fanaticism.”
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“His books on this period, so his book on the flight to Varennes and his book on the coming of the terror, they are brilliant on this period, so 1791, 1792.”
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“Simon Sharma writes at the end of his chapter on this. Poets of romantic weather forecasting like William Wordsworth continued to describe the revolution as a very cyclonic disturbance.”
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“Poets of romantic weather forecasting like William Wordsworth continued to describe the revolution as a very cyclonic disturbance.”
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“Henry Mantel's novel, A Place of Greater Safety, the hero is this guy, Camille Demoulin. But he had already written, he'd published a declaration of the rights of the accuser.”
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