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Through witness accounts of executions and street spectacles, the novel portrays the moral collapse of Paris during the French Revolution. It follows characters like Jean Paul Marin, who, after imprisonment by the nobility, becomes entangled in the harsh realities that set the stage for the Napoleonic wars.
First publish date: 1953
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Frank Yerby
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