I. Life as a Battlefield (1763–1774)
I. The Theory of Ambition (1784–1787)
II. Rue Condé: Thursday Afternoon (1787)
III. Maximilien: Life and Times (1787)
IV. A Wedding, a Riot, a Prince of the Blood (1787–1788)
VI. Last Days of Titonville (1789)
II. Liberty, Gaiety, Royal Democracy (1790)
IV. More Acts of the Apostles (1791)
II. Danton: His Portrait Made (1791)
III. Three Blades, Two in Reserve (1791–1792)
IV. The Tactics of a Bull (1792)
III. The Visible Exercise of Power (1792–1793)
V. A Martyr, a King, a Child (1793)
VIII. Imperfect Contrition (1793)
XI. The Old Cordeliers (1793–1794)
XIII. Conditional Absolution (1794)
Excerpt from Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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THIS IS A NOVEL about the French Revolution. Almost all the characters in it are real people and it is closely tied to historical facts – as far as those facts are agreed, which isn’t really very far. It is not an overview or a complete account of the Revolution. The story centres on Paris; what happens in the provinces is outside its scope, and so for the most part are military events.
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