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Williams, Helen Maria

 
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Synopsis

Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827), English poet, novelist, and chronicler of the French Revolution, here vividly recounts her experiences in France during the Terror. Arrested in the fall of 1793, Williams records with passion and sorrow the degeneration of the Revolution into chaos and murder. She sketches the colorful personalities of her friends and acquaintances (Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Georges-Jacques Danton) and enemies (Maximilien Robespierre, Louis-Antoine de St. Just, Jean Paul Marat), while all the time displaying her enduring optimism that Revolution would eventually succeed in liberty and justice for people everywhere.

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À propos de l'auteur

The Editor: Jack Fruchtman, Jr. is Professor of Political Science at Maryland's Towson State University. He is the author of Thomas Paine: Appostle of Freedom, Thomas Paine and the Religion of Nature, and The Apocalyptic Politics of Richard Price and Joseph Priestley as well as severalarticles and commentary in learned journals.

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