The National Razor
Hilary Mantel: Aux Armes, Citoyennes, 16 July 1998
The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution
by Dominique Godineau, translated by Katherine Sharp.
California, 415 pp., £45, January 1998,0 520 06718 5 Show More
by Dominique Godineau, translated by Katherine Sharp.
California, 415 pp., £45, January 1998,
“... as earthy and solid, but the harder you look for her the more elusive she becomes. She is, as Dominique Godineau says, ‘lost within a paragraph’. She hides in the thickets of partial and compromised evidence, compiled by male hands and reflecting male concerns. She does not speak, but ‘screams’ or ‘yelps’ down the years. She does not ... ”
