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Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution (Princeton Classic Editions) (Updated Edition) by Robert Roswell Palmer, Isser Woloch (Foreword) Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-691-12187-7 / 0691121877 ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12187-1 / 9780691121871 In its fifth year (1793-1794), the French Revolution faced a multifaceted crisis that threatened to overwhelm the Republic. In response the government instituted a revolutionary dictatorship and a "reign of terror," with a Committee of Public Safety at its head. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrat |