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A Place of Greater Safety

by Hilary Mantel

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  • French Revolution

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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A Place of Greater Safety

It concerns the events of the French Revolution, focusing on the lives of Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and Maximilien Robespierre from their childhood through the execution of the Dantonists. The narrative features not only the perspectives of leading personalities of the French Revolution but also those of their wives, lovers, parents, and friends, supplemented by descriptions of ceremonies, conspiracies, street fights, trials, and debates in the National Convention and the Jacobin Club.

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