one of many many works on the French revolution by an English historian who pollutes the historiography with counter-revolutionary propaganda. at every turn the monarchs and nobility conduct themselves with perfect equanimity dignity and thoughtfulness while the ascendent bourgeoisie and peasantry are snarling licentious irrational self-interested brutes.

royalist propaganda regarding excesses of violence committed by revolutionaries are produced on almost every page, a cursory google told me that historians no longer believe that '[x atrocity]' actually took place, e.g. a crowd disembowelled one of the Queen's handmaidens, strewed her organs around the courtyard in front of her children, etc.

in short its a gothic work of fiction but whatever, I know who Danton is now