A Place of Greater Safety: A Novel

Table of Contents

Title Page

PART ONE

CHAPTER 1 - Life as a Battlefield

CHAPTER 2 - Corpse-Candle

CHAPTER 3 - At Maître Vinot’s

PART TWO

CHAPTER 1 - The Theory of Ambition

CHAPTER 2 - Rue Condé: Thursday Afternoon

CHAPTER 3 - Maximilien: Life and Times

CHAPTER 4 - A Wedding, A Riot, A Prince of the Blood

CHAPTER 5 - A New Profession

CHAPTER 6 - Last Days of Titonville

CHAPTER 7 - Killing Time

PART THREE

CHAPTER 1 - Virgins

CHAPTER 2 - Liberty, Gaiety, royal Democracy

CHAPTER 3 - Lady’s Pleasure

CHAPTER 4 - More Acts of the Apostles

PART FOUR

CHAPTER 1 - A Lucky Hand

CHAPTER 2 - Danton: His Portrait Made

CHAPTER 3 - Three Blades, Two in Reserve

CHAPTER 4 - The Tactics of a Bull

CHAPTER 5 - Burning the Bodies

PART FIVE

CHAPTER 1 - Conspirators

CHAPTER 2 - Robespierricide

CHAPTER 3 - The Visible Exercise of Power

CHAPTER 4 - Blackmail

CHAPTER 5 - A Martyr, a King, a Child

CHAPTER 6 - A Secret History

CHAPTER 7 - Carnivores

CHAPTER 8 - Imperfect Contrition

CHAPTER 9 - East Indians

CHAPTER 10 - The Marquis Calls

CHAPTER 11 - The Old Cordeliers

CHAPTER 12 - Ambivalence

CHAPTER 13 - Conditional Absolution

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