Timothy Tackett is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Irvine. His publications include The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution; Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France; and Becoming a Revolutionary.
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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 tole... SEE MORE