Let them eat dirt
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1518420,00.html
Adam Thorpe salutes David Andress's The Terror, a gripping account of
the years that followed the French revolution
Saturday July 2, 2005
The Observer
The Terror
by David Andress
437pp, Little, Brown, =A320
The teenage Rimbaud had only to write, in a school essay in 1870,
"Marat and Robespierre, the young await you!" to horrify his second
empire teachers. These two men were, after all, the primary architects
(along with Saint-Just) of the bloody terror into which the high ideals
of the French revolution had descended some 80 years earlier - and
which the Paris Commune of 1870 was threatening to repeat. A few years
later, the new third republic was using words dear to both Marat and
Robespierre as its slogan: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". The present
fifth republic keeps them still.
David Andress
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