Godwin's account of her provoked many controversialists, among them A Friend to Social Order, who published in 1799 Thoughts on Marriage, and Criminal Conversation, with some hints of appropriate means to check the progress...
Literary Setting
Hilary Mantel
The novel takes place in Paris, primarily during the years of the revolution, beginning from 1787, when, as HM
sees it, three men, Camille Desmoulins
, Maximilien Robespierre
, and Georges-Jacques Danton
, seized...
Timeline
5 April 1794: In France, Robespierre had his two erstwhile...
National or international item
5 April 1794
In France, Robespierre
had his two erstwhile friends and associates Desmoulins
and Danton
guillotined.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
