The Incident 1. A Consistency of Sentiment

2. Anxiety and Rumor

3. The Celebration of Murder

4. Monstrous Brutes

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Alain Corbin is Professor of History at the Sorbonne.

Arthur Goldhammer received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

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