Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
R.R. Palmer
Jun 2020 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by David Stifel
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The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, recounting and assessing their tumultuous struggles in Paris and their repressive missions in the provinces. A foreword by Isser Woloch explains why this book remains an enduring classic in French revolutionary studies.
About the author
R. R. Palmer (1909-2002) was professor emeritus of history at Yale University and a guest scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was the author of many books, including the two-volume The Age of the Democratic Revolution, the first volume of which won the Bancroft Prize in 1960.
Actor David Stifel entered the audiobook narration field in 2011, when he launched a long-term podcast of serializations of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Today he is a multi-award-winning narrator with more than 125 titles to his credit.
Isser Woloch is the Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.
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