The reign of terror : a collection of authentic narratives of the horrors committed by the revolutionary government of France under Marat and Robespierre, written by eye-witnesses of the scenes; translated from the French ; interspersed with biographical notices of prominent characters and curious anecdotes illustrative of a period without its parallel in history (v.1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The reign of terror : a collection of authentic narratives of the horrors committed by the revolutionary government of France under Marat and Robespierre, written by eye-witnesses of the scenes; translated from the French ; interspersed with biographical notices of prominent characters and curious anecdotes illustrative of a period without its parallel in history (v.1)
Classmark: Pencheon Collection REI
Additional creator(s): Pinkerton, Percy (Compiler); Ashworth, J H (Compiler); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982) (Former owner)
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott
Publication city: Philadelphia
Date(s): 1898
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/777128
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020269688405181
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v. 1. My agony of thirty-eight hours / M. de Jourgniac St. Meard -- Some of the bitter fruits of the Revolution, and a feeble sketch of the days of the 2nd and 3rd September, 1792 -- Relation addressed by the Abbe Sicard, instructor of the deaf and dumb, to one of his friends, on the dangers which he ran on the 2nd and 3rd September, 1792 -- Declaration of Citizen Antoine-Gabriel-Aime Jourdan, late President of the District of the Petits-Augustins, and of the sections of the Quatre Nations -- The incarceration, and the dreadful terrors of Beaumarchais -- Humanity trampled upon / Joseph Paris de l'Epinard -- Memoirs of a prisoner / Riouffe -- Historical sketch of the Prison of St. Lazare, from its opening until the 9th Thermidor (27th July, 1794), when Robespierre was executed.
v.1 --
Includes bibliographical references.
"Prepared for the press by Mr. Percy Pinkerton and Mr. J.H. Ashworth" -- page vi.
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Leeds University Library copy at Pencheon Collection REI: From the collection of James Michael Pencheon (1924-1982).
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