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A Tale of Two Cities
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Charles Dickens
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 408,868 ratings
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Emmuska Orczy
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 57,520 ratings
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Courage
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Robert Carter (Goodreads Author)
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
by
Antonia Fraser
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 16,176 ratings
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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
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Michelle Moran (Goodreads Author)
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 7,814 ratings
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
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Simon Schama
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 1,771 ratings
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The French Revolution: A History
by
Thomas Carlyle
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Scaramouche
by
Rafael Sabatini
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 2,788 ratings
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The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
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Peter Weiss
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,724 ratings
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The Elusive Pimpernel
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Emmuska Orczy
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 946 ratings
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The Glass-Blowers
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Daphne du Maurier
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 846 ratings
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Revolution
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Jennifer Donnelly
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 12,909 ratings
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The Knight of Maison-Rouge
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Alexandre Dumas
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 694 ratings
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A Place of Greater Safety
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Hilary Mantel
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
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Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
by
R.R. Palmer
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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Emmuska Orczy
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 454 ratings
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The Gods Will Have Blood
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Anatole France
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 452 ratings
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El Dorado: Further Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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Emmuska Orczy
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 665 ratings
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Dantons Tod
by
Georg Büchner
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 460 ratings
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The League Of The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Emmuska Orczy
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 520 ratings
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The Old Regime and the French Revolution
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Alexis de Tocqueville
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
by
Ruth Scurr
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 254 ratings
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The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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Emmuska Orczy
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
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Stefan Zweig
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 839 ratings
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City of Darkness, City of Light
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Marge Piercy
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
by
Sena Jeter Naslund
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 5,096 ratings
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The Chouans
by
Honoré de Balzac
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 218 ratings
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The Countess de Charny
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Alexandre Dumas
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Companions of Jehu
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Alexandre Dumas
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Fouché
by
Stefan Zweig
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Taking the Bastile
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Alexandre Dumas
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Days of the French Revolution
by
Christopher Hibbert
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 425 ratings
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The Road from Versailles: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy
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Munro Price
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Quatre-Vingt-Treiz
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Victor Hugo
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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The Whites and the Blues
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Alexandre Dumas
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Edmund Burke
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 1,592 ratings
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The woman with the velvet necklace
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Alexandre Dumas
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 64 ratings
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La Comtesse de Rudolstadt
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George Sand
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Virtue and Terror
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Maximilien de Robespierre
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 87 ratings
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La Confession de Talleyrand 1754-1838
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Talleyrand
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Robespierre
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Romain Rolland
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Marat : Ecrits
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Jean-Paul Marat
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Red Necklace (French Revolution, #1)
by
Sally Gardner
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 3,569 ratings
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A Far Better Rest
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Susanne Alleyn (Goodreads Author)
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Game of Patience (Aristide Ravel, #1)
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Susanne Alleyn (Goodreads Author)
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Gods Are Thirsty: A Novel of the French Revolution
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Tanith Lee
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Josephine B. Trilogy
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Sandra Gulland (Goodreads Author)
4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 2,402 ratings
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Le Chevalier Des Touches
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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Paris in the Terror
by
Stanley Loomis
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Sir Percy Leads the Band
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Emmuska Orczy
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Mam'zelle Guillotine
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Emmuska Orczy
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 94 ratings
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An Episode Under the Terror
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Honoré de Balzac
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Andrea Chenier: An Opera in Four Acts with Italian Text
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Umberto Giordano (Composer)
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Posies de Andr Chnier: Dition Critique, Tude Sur La Vie Et Les Oeuvres D'Andr Chnier, Bibliograpie Des Oeuvres Posthumes, Aperu Sur Les Oeuvr
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Andr Chnier
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Louis Xvi
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Bernard Vincent
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800
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Conor Cruise O'Brien
3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Reasons for Wishing to Preserve the Life of Louis Capet. as Delivered to the National Convention. by Thomas Paine. ..
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Thomas Paine
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
by
Jay Winik
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Past Her Time
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Melissa Jarvis (Goodreads Author)
4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Time of Terror (Nathan Peake, #1)
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Seth Hunter
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Valley of Heaven and Hell - Cycling in the Shadow of Marie-Antoinette
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Susie Kelly (Goodreads Author)
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Pale Assassin (Pimpernelles, #1)
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Patricia Elliott
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 1,359 ratings
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Jean-Baptiste Cléry: Eyewitness to Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette's Nightmare
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H. Will Bashor (Goodreads Author)
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution
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François Furet (Editor)
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution
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Anto de Baecque
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)
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Sandra Gulland (Goodreads Author)
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 5,347 ratings
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Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution: Twentieth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface
by
Lynn Hunt
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Crowd in the French Revolution
by
George Rudé
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 28 ratings
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A Short History of the French Revolution
by
Jeremy D. Popkin
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Bluebird, or The Invention of Happiness
by
Sheila Kohler
3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Fatal Friendship: Marie Antoinette, Count Fersen and the Flight to Varennes
by
Stanley Loomis
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Sovay
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Celia Rees (Goodreads Author)
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 2,416 ratings
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The Deaths of Louis XVI: Regicide and the French Political Imagination
by
Susan Dunn
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe (Josephine Bonaparte, #2)
by
Sandra Gulland (Goodreads Author)
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 2,569 ratings
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Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution (University of California Humanities Research Institute Series)
by
Leslie W. Rabine
2.6 of 5 stars 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The French Revolution: A History
by
Thomas Carlyle
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Marie Antoinette
by
Joan Haslip
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Ramage (The Lord Ramage Novels, #1)
by
Dudley Pope
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 519 ratings
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In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy
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G.A. Henty
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 226 ratings
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The Last Great Dance on Earth (Josephine Bonaparte, #3)
by
Sandra Gulland (Goodreads Author)
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 2,105 ratings
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Palace of Justice (Aristide Ravel, #2)
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Susanne Alleyn (Goodreads Author)
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 43 ratings
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In Search of Honor
by
Donna Lynn Hess
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution
by
Joan B. Landes
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Trianon: A Novel of Royal France
by
Elena Maria Vidal (Goodreads Author)
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
by
R.R. Palmer
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 113 ratings
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My Lady Ludlow
by
Elizabeth Gaskell
3.32 of 5 stars 3.32 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The One Thing More
by
Anne Perry
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 43 ratings
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A Treasury of Regrets (Aristide Ravel, #4)
by
Susanne Alleyn (Goodreads Author)
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
by
Lucy Moore
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Ninety-Three
by
Victor Hugo
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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No Surrender!
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G.A. Henty
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Cavalier of the Apocalypse (Aristide Ravel, #1)
by
Susanne Alleyn (Goodreads Author)
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Seven Ages of Paris
by
Alistair Horne
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 625 ratings
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The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
by
Deborah Cadbury
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 627 ratings
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Talleyrand
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Duff Cooper
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792--1794
by
Graeme Fife
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
by
Caroline Weber
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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The Nights Of Paris
by
Nicolas-Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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I Will Repay
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Emmuska Orczy
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 378 ratings
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Poètes de 1989 et la Révolution française. Précédés des Iambes de André de Chénier.
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André Chénier
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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