He wouldn’t dare
David A. Bell: Bloodletting in Paris, 9 May 2002
Blood in the City: Violence and Revelation in Paris 1789-1945
by Richard D.E. Burton.
Cornell, 395 pp., £24.50, September 2001,0 8014 3868 3 Show More
by Richard D.E. Burton.
Cornell, 395 pp., £24.50, September 2001,
“... the visitor who delights in the first also thrills, secretly, to the second. In Blood in the City, Richard Burton takes his readers on a walking tour of Parisian sacrifice and slaughter. He moves from the Bastille to the place de la Concorde (where Louis XVI was executed), to the Hôtel de Ville (where successive generations of revolutionaries raised the ... ”
