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Colin Jones

Colin Jones is a professor of history at Queen Mary, University of London. His books include The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, Paris: Biography of a City, and The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. (June 2017)

How The Terror Felt

October 26, 2017 issue

Dirk Bogarde (right) as Sydney Carton at the guillotine in A Tale of Two Cities, 1958

Did Emotions Cause the Terror?

The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution

by Timothy Tackett

June 22, 2017 issue

Letter

E. Haberkern

How The Terror Felt

October 26, 2017 issue

Frontispiece of Pierre Manuel’s La Police de Paris dévoilée (The Paris Police Unveiled), 1790, one ‘of a series of sensational assaults on the Old Regime political establishment’; from Robert Darnton’s The Devil in the Holy Water

Paris: Notes from Underground

The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon

by Robert Darnton

May 13, 2010 issue

At the Heart of the Terror

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

by Ruth Scurr

December 20, 2007 issue

Letter

Jonathan Bennett

‘The Dear Old Year’

March 6, 2008 issue

More Teeth

May 31, 2001 issue

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