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...
Literary responses
Mary Wollstonecraft
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...
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.
