COMPELLED TO WITNESS. WOMEN'S MEMOIRS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - Tecno-Libro

From Marie Antoinette during her final days in prison, to Charlotte Robespierre, the sister of the man responsible for ordering hundreds to the guillotine, women on both sides of the revolution were bound together by a common nightmare. Join Stanford professor Marilyn Yalom, as she uncovers first-person accounts of more than eighty remarkable women memoirists of all ages and backgrounds, all victims of the French Revolution. . . . . Seven heads fell to the acclamation of that mad crowd, which, fortunately for me, was too captivated by this bloody scene to notice my flight and my fear . . -Alexandrine desecherolles, then fourteen years old, describing executions by guillotine in the public square of Lyon, France. . . The murder of my father, before my very eyes, filled me with rage and despair. From this moment on .i swore to fight until death or victory. .<