The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution

Timothy Tackett

Jun 2020 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Michael Page

About this audiobook

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror?

About the author

Timothy Tackett is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Irvine. His publications include The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution; Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France; and Becoming a Revolutionary.

Michael Page has been recording audiobooks since the mid-1980s and now has nearly 500 titles to his credit. He has won two Audie Awards and several AudioFile Earphones Awards. A PhD and a professional actor, Michael is also a retired professor of theater.