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.ii, C.2)
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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.ii, C.2)
Classmark: Pencheon Collection REI
Additional creator(s): Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982) (Former owner)
Publisher: Leonard Smithers
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1898
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/789728
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991021184068805181
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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. 2. Memoirs of the prisons.
Includes bibliographical references.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Pencheon Collection REI: From the collection of James Michael Pencheon (1924-1982).
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