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History influenced A Place of Greater Safety
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
- French Revolution
The evidence
Hilary Mantel's novel follows three real revolutionaries, Danton, Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, from their youth through the French Revolution to the Terror that devoured them.
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