French Terror

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?

The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, recounting and assessing their tumultuous struggles in Paris and their repressive missions in the provinces.

Harry Sandwith, a Westminster boy, becomes a resident at the chateau of a French marquis. After various adventures he accompanies the family to Paris at the height of the French Revolution. Imprisonment and death reduce their number, and Harry finds himself beset by perils with the three young daughters of the house in his charge. After narrow escapes they reach Nantes. There the girls are condemned to death in the coffin ships, but are saved by the unfailing courage of their young protector.

The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, ushered in the French Revolution. Within four years, the king was executed and a revolutionary tribunal was established to judge "enemies of the people." The property of nobles was seized and "enemies" tried and sent to the guillotine. Harry Sandwith, a companion of a French family, wins their confidence and becomes the protector of the three daughters. After the girls are condemned to death in the coffin-ships, Harry saves the girls and the gets them safely to England.

It is 1793 in France, the year of the guillotine. Already, Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold, and Terror reigns. The architects of the Revolution (Marat, Danton, and Robespierre) have set up the Convention, an embryo parliament, designed to stem social chaos. But ideals topple in the face of political necessity, alliances founder, and intrigue is a way of life.

For an entire generation, at home and abroad, the United States has waged an endless conflict known as the War on Terror. In addition to multiple ground wars, the era pioneered drone strikes and industrial-scale digital surveillance, weakened the rule of law through indefinite detentions, sanctioned torture, and manipulated the truth about it all. These conflicts have yielded neither peace nor victory, but they have transformed America. Today’s nativist resurgence walked through a door opened by the 9/11 era. And that door remains open.

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of Thomas Carlyle himself.

Nagel tells a remarkable story of an astonishing woman, from her birth, to her upbringing by doting parents, through to Revolution, imprisonment, exile, Restoration, and, finally, her reincarnation as saint and matriarch.

Materialising in a forest, the Doctor and friends find themselves 12 kilometres from Paris. It is the 18th century, and France is the scene of an ongoing battle between royalists and revolutionaries. Following a blaze at a farmhouse, Ian, Barbara, and Susan are separated from the Doctor and arrested as traitors. Ian receives information about James Stirling, an English spy vital to the revolution. No one seems to know where Stirling is, and locating him becomes Ian's priority.

"Simply Magnificent!" – Stew Ross, author of Where Did They Put the Guillotine? France 1794. Zoé Ariane Donet was in love with love until she met the young commander of the royalist army fighting the revolutionaries tearing apart France. When the dashing young general is killed, she joins the royalist cause, rescuing émigrés fleeing Robespierre’s Reign of Terror. One man watches over her: Frederick West, the brother of an English earl, who has known Zoé since she was a precocious ten-year-old child. At sixteen, she promised great beauty, the flower of French womanhood about to bloom...

The editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica are pleased to present The French Revolution Series. Here you will learn about the grandeur and opulence of the French régime, as well as its chaotic downfall and the new order that rose from its ashes. In this edition, the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica examine the key events of the French Revolution that lead to the Reign of Terror.

After her late husband leaves her in debt to some dangerous people, Lady Gabrielle McCullough is forced to become a thief. In the intervening years, her skills have not gone unnoticed. After being recruited by the Scarlet Pimpernel, the mysterious do-gooder spiriting aristocrats out of revolutionary France, Gabrielle crosses the Channel for the most daring mission of her life. Accompanying her is the Earl of Sedgwick, a thief in his own right and an enticingly masculine presence. The man is not to be trusted - nor is Gabrielle's body when he's near.

Honoria Blake knows she must have had a moment of madness when she accepted a summons by the Scarlet Pimpernel to travel to revolutionary Paris and help his League. She's an expert forger, but the violence of the Reign of Terror has her longing for her quiet, unobtrusive life in London. Then a bloody man staggers to the door of the house where she's hiding, claiming he was sent by the Pimpernel. Recently escaped from La Force prison, the former Marquis de Montagne is sinfully handsome and charming. He's also desperate enough to kidnap Honoria. So much for her return to the quiet life.

When Tristan Chevalier joined the French revolutionaries to fight for brotherhood, equality, and liberty, he was full of hopes and dreams of what the revolution could accomplish. But after several years of serving as the bloodthirsty Robespierre's second, Tristan is having doubts. When Tristan tries to halt Robespierre's Reign of Terror, he inadvertently steps into a trap laid by the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel and orchestrated by the lovely Alexandra Martin.

Six victimes en douze mois. Des prostituées sont retrouvées sans vie sur la voie ferrée où passe le West Coast Express. Un tueur en série rôde et sème la terreur à Vancouver dans le Downtown Eastside, l’un des quartiers les plus pauvres et les plus criminalisés en Amérique.

Dans un coin de la cour d’école, un grand cordon jaune, comme celui qui délimite une scène de crime, a été installé entre les arbres. Dans cette zone désormais interdite, un trou a été creusé puis rempli de terre à nouveau et couvert de fougères déracinées. Mais pourquoi ? Se peut-il qu’un cadavre y soit enterré ? Des vers de terre géants seraient-ils en train d’envahir la clairière de la cour ? Ou peut-être s’agit-il du lit d’un zombie ?... Tout comme les autres élèves, Jacob et ses amis Axel et Marie-Maxime élaborent des hypothèses farfelues.

Les hurlements terrifiés de Jimmy et Flavien en pleine classe n'inquiètent d'abord pas Jacob. Il n'est pas comme sa mère, une excentrique enquêteuse qui voit des drames et des mystères partout. Mais les deux élèves blagueurs sont-ils de si bons acteurs? Quand d'autres personnes sont victimes de ces mêmes crises de frayeur, Jacob ne peut plus faire comme si tout était normal. Quelle est la cause de ces terreurs? Une série télévisée de zombis? Le fantôme d'un ancien concierge? Son enseignante madame Patricia?

Les élèves de la classe de Jacob avaient très hâte à cette soirée de jeux de société à l’école, mais ils ignoraient qu’une tempête les garderait enfermés dans le bâtiment ! Bientôt, les faits troublants s’accumulent : est-ce un hasard si toutes les communications ont été coupées ? Où est passée l’enseignante, madame Patricia ? Quelle est cette ombre qui se promène dans les couloirs ? Est-ce un farceur qui s’amuse à les effrayerou une personne mal intentionnée ? De quel danger la mère de Jacob essaie-t-elle de les protéger ?

Jacob devrait être heureux de passer davantage de temps chez son père musicien... Mais il doute qu'il ait beaucoup de plaisir sans sa mère enquêteuse et sans mystère à résoudre. À sa grande surprise, la musique classique n'est pas aussi ennuyante qu'il le croyait! Entre des instruments qui subissent d'étranges bris, un fantôme flûtiste et des créateurs de jeux vidéos curieux, il en a vite plein les bras! Heureusement qu'il peut encore une fois compter sur Axel et Marie-Maxime pour mener l'enquête à ses côtés.

Passer dix jours dans une auberge au bord d'un lac est peut-être le rêve de certains, mais pas celui de Jacob et sa mère ! Ils ne voient pas comment ils pourront survivre loin des amis et d'Internet. Heureusement, plusieurs légendes fantastiques font du village de Lac-aux-Galets un endroit hors de l'ordinaire.