Terror and Its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France

by Caroline Weber

A timely exploration of the political uses of language and rhetoric

Camille Desmoulins, a journalist writing under the Montagnard regime of 1793-94, remarked that France's government had replaced "the language of democracy" with "the cold poison of fear, which paralyzed thought in the bottom of people's souls, and prevented it from pouring forth at the tribunal, or in writing." How this happened, how the Reign of Terror reached...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081663887X
• ISBN13: 9780816638871
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"