A Place of Greater Safety

PART TWO (#ulink_909e94cb-d74f-5b49-80ea-2518112d1e4b)

I. The Theory of Ambition (1784–1787) (#ulink_e438c7ee-054d-5e92-9d91-b2261e0aee90)

II. Rue Condé: Thursday Afternoon (1787) (#ulink_72ecd054-395e-5dce-b942-80d277252b74)

III. Maximilien: Life and Times (1787) (#ulink_ce2bf870-0be5-51f0-a66f-27138c0f959f)

IV. A Wedding, a Riot, a Prince of the Blood (1787–1788) (#ulink_da612e84-00de-5180-b4c9-2ad8f6c9c0fb)

V. A New Profession (1788) (#ulink_8ba40d1b-cc06-559d-98e9-03e5e5236324)

VI. Last Days of Titonville (1789) (#ulink_85c8239c-328a-5617-9a2f-4c13a11d853a)

VII. Killing Time (1789) (#litres_trial_promo)

PART THREE (#litres_trial_promo)

I. Virgins (1789) (#litres_trial_promo)

II. Liberty, Gaiety, Royal Democracy (1790) (#litres_trial_promo)

III. Lady’s Pleasure (1791) (#litres_trial_promo)

IV. More Acts of the Apostles (1791) (#litres_trial_promo)

PART FOUR (#litres_trial_promo)

I. A Lucky Hand (1791) (#litres_trial_promo)

II. Danton: His Portrait Made (1791) (#litres_trial_promo)

III. Three Blades, Two in Reserve (1791–1792) (#litres_trial_promo)

IV. The Tactics of a Bull (1792) (#litres_trial_promo)

V. Burning the Bodies (1792) (#litres_trial_promo)

PART FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)

I. Conspirators (1792) (#litres_trial_promo)

II. Robespierricide (1792) (#litres_trial_promo)

III. The Visible Exercise of Power (1792–1793) (#litres_trial_promo)

IV. Blackmail (1793) (#litres_trial_promo)

V. A Martyr, a King, a Child (1793) (#litres_trial_promo)

VI. A Secret History (1793) (#litres_trial_promo)

VII. Carnivores (1793) (#litres_trial_promo)

VIII. Imperfect Contrition (1793) (#litres_trial_promo)

IX. East Indians (1793) (#litres_trial_promo)

X. The Marquis Calls (1793) (#litres_trial_promo)

XI. The Old Cordeliers (1793–1794) (#litres_trial_promo)

XII. Ambivalence (1794) (#litres_trial_promo)

XIII. Conditional Absolution (1794) (#litres_trial_promo)

Note (#litres_trial_promo)

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A Kind of Alchemy (#litres_trial_promo)

Life at a Glance (#litres_trial_promo)

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Author’s Note (#ulink_139bde9e-ca5c-55b1-801e-a3c52909af26)

THIS IS A NOVEL about the French Revolution. Almost all the characters in it are real people and it is closely tied to historical facts – as far as those facts are agreed, which isn’t really very far. It is not an overview or a complete account of the Revolution. The story centres on Paris; what happens in the provinces is outside its scope, and so for the most part are military events.

My main characters were not famous until the Revolution made them so, and not much is known about their early lives. I have used what there is, and made educated guesses about the rest.

This is not, either, an impartial account. I have tried to see the world as my people saw it, and they had their own prejudices and opinions. Where I can, I have used their real words – from recorded speeches or preserved writings – and woven them into my own dialogue. I have been guided by a belief that what goes on to the record is often tried out earlier, off the record.