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Colin Jones is a professor of history at Queen Mary, University of London. His books include The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, Paris: Biography of a City, and The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. (June 2017)
Did Emotions Cause the Terror?
The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
by Timothy Tackett
June 22, 2017 issue
Paris: Notes from Underground
The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
by Robert Darnton
May 13, 2010 issue
At the Heart of the Terror
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
by Ruth Scurr
December 20, 2007 issue
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