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Vintage Sunday Times Magazine July 9th 1989
REVOLUTION IN REVIEW
This week’s issue is devoted to the momentous events in France 200 years ago.
Page 12: Robert Darnton asks: what was revolutionary about the French Revolution?
Page 18: Douglas Johnson examines the guillotine.
Page 28: we meet some present-day descendants of the Revolutionaries.
Page 35: Godfrey Smith on Robespierre, a visionary in torment.
Page 44: Aileen Ribeiro looks at Revolutionary fashions.
Page 49:Philip Mansel salutes Marie Antoinette. Consultant: Professor William Doyle of Bristol University, author of The Oxford History of the French Revolution (1989). Cover illustration by Paul Slater
‘Because the country must live, Louis must die.’ The execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793
68 pages This issue is in very good condition throughout.
