Peggy Noonan
muses on the Terror, then and now.
Wouldn't you have to need a job pretty badly to continue working at a professional institution that boasted something called an "Inclusive Communications Task Force," whether or not it was backed up by the guillotine?
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"the beginning of his talking is folly and the end of it is wicked madness."
The institution didn't start out so insane. Just a little foolish.
I highly recommend _The Old Regime and the Revolution_ by Alexis de Tocqueville. Yes, that de Tocqueville. His argument is that the revolution was only an intensification of the process of centralization that had begun with Louis XIII and intensified under Louis XIV. He doesn't look into the Terror per se, since he's more interested in the long run of events.
R.R. Palmer's _Twelve who Ruled_ is still the best short book on the men of the Committee of Public Safety, in my opinion.
LittleRed1
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