![]() ![]() Although the details have to be surmised, they are based on careful analysis of the writings of the real people involved, drawing out their motivations and beliefs. You see their relationships, their trials and their temptations. You feel embedded in it, experiencing what drove them from crisis to crisis and directed their actions. In this well-researched book, she draws flesh and blood portraits of the leaders of the revolution and what led them to the events of that stormy time. Hilary Mantel dives beneath that to breathe life into the characters who populated the events. If you've learned about the French Revolution at school, you've probably assembled a jumble of facts about the dramatic actions of the revolutionaries and the mob and the outcome of it all. Living breathing flesh on history's bare bones ![]()
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